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were making one great effort to carry off all 

 the provifions, ftores, and furniture of the 

 town, previous to evacuating it to the poffef- 

 fion of an enemy. One hurried off with 

 legs and flioulders of mutton, another with 

 half a Iheep, a third with a huge piece of 

 beef, and others with different joints of veal 

 or pork. Here was a man running with a 

 cheefe, there one with a fugar-loaf. Others 

 were fcampering away loaded with rice, or 

 papers of groceries. Some ran off with bags 

 of bread, fome with bafkets of greens, po- 

 tatoes, carrots, turnips, and the like. Many 

 were feen bending under heavy bundles of 

 clothes, wet from the wafh 5 others loaded 

 with camp-ftools, deal -boxes, fea-coffers, 

 pewter utenfils, and various other kinds of 

 ftores ; and, amidft the throng, ourfelves with 

 the fmoking giblet pie, and fuch other pro- 

 ylfions as we had been able to procure. Every 

 ©ne was upon the alert. Ncceffity made all 

 induftrious, and, without any idle or fcrupu- 

 lous objedions, each was glad to minifter to 

 his own wants. 



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