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too ill to swallow a morsel: and at length they 

 were obliged to leave hirn, and go to take care of 

 the provision-grounds. As soon as they were 

 gone, the husband became perfectly well, emptied 

 the contents of the pot with great appetite, and 

 enjoyed himself in ease and indolence till evening, 

 when he saw his wives returning ; and immediately 

 he became worse than ever. One of the women 

 was quite shocked to see the size to which the 

 lump had increased during her absence: she begged 

 to examine it; but although she barely touched it 

 with the tip of her finger gts gingerly as possible, 

 it was so tender that the fellow screamed with 

 agony. Unluckily, the other woman's manners 

 were by no means so delicate ; and seizing him 

 forcibly by the head to examine it, she undesign- 

 edly happened to hit him a great knock on the 

 jaw, and, lo and behold 1 out flew a large lime, 

 which he had crammed into it. Upon which both 

 his wives fell upon him like two furies ; beat him 

 out of the house; and whenever afterwards he 

 begged them to go to the provision-grounds, they 

 told him that he had got no lime in his mouth 

 then, and obliged him from that time forwards to 

 do the whole work himself.' 9 



A negro was brought to England; and the first 

 point shown him being the chalky cliffs of Dover, 

 44 O ki ! " he said ; " me know now what makes the 

 buckras all so white ! " 



