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intercourse between them whatsoever : a plan, 

 which was received with approbation by all par- 

 ties ; and Edward moved his property out of the 

 old man's house into another without loss of time. 

 Among other charges of Obeah, Pickle declared, 

 that his house having been robbed, Edward had 

 told him that Nato was the offender ; and in order 

 to prove it beyond the power of doubt, he had made 

 him look at something round, " just like massa's 

 watch," out of which he had taken a sentee (a 

 something) which looked like an egg; this he gave 

 to Pickle, at the same time instructing him to throw 

 it at night against the door of Nato's house; which 

 he had no sooner done and broken the egg, than 

 the very next day Nato's wife Philippa " began to 

 bawl, and halloo, and went mad." Now that Phi- 

 lippa had bawled and hallooed enough was cer- 

 tainly true ; but it was also true that she had 

 confessed her madness to have been a trick for the 

 purpose of exciting my compassion, and inducing 

 me to feed her from my own table. Yet was this 

 simple fellow persuaded that he had made her go 

 mad by the help of his broken egg, and his old 

 fool of a father-in-law was goose enough to encou- 

 rage him in the persuasion. 



April 19. (Sunday.) 



" And massa," said Bridget, the doctoress, this 

 morning, " my old mother a lilly so-so to-day ; and 

 him tank massa much for the good supper massa 



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