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appeared afterwards, that he had employed his 

 absence in complaining to Mr. Williams, a neigh- 

 bouring magistrate, that, " having a spite against 

 them, although neither he nor his wife had com- 

 mitted any fault, I had punished them both by 

 locking them up for several days in a solitary 

 prison, under pretence of his wife's insanity, 

 when, in fact, she was perfectly in her senses." 

 Unluckily, one of my physicians had told Mr. 

 Williams, that very morning, how much he had 

 been alarmed at Cornwall, when, upon going into 

 a mad woman's room, her husband had fastened 

 the door, and he had found himself shut up be- 

 tween them; the woman really mad, and the 

 man pretending to be so too. The moment that 

 Nato mentioned the mad woman as his wife, 

 " What then," said Mr. Williams, " you are the 

 fellow who alarmed the doctor so much tw T o days 

 ago?" Upon which Nato had the impudence to 

 burst into a fit of laughter, — <c Oh, ki, massa, doc- 

 tor no need be fright ; we no want to hurt him ; 

 only make lilly bit fun wid him, massa, that all." 

 On which he was ordered to get out of Mr. 

 Williams's house, slunk back into the Cornwall 

 hospital, and in a few days came to me with such 

 a long story of penitence, and " so good massa," 

 that he induced me to forgive him. 



To sum up the whole, about three this morning 

 an alarm was given that the pen-keeper had suffered 

 the cattle to get among the canes, where they might 



