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having our milk was by fending off fomc 

 perfon, inftantly, to Portfmouth, who would 

 bring the cow, without a moment's delay. 

 M ac — hearing this, and being always defirous 

 to make himfelf ufeful, immediately volun- 

 teered his fervices — nothing doubting of fuc- 

 cefs. A boat, returning to the more, was 

 accordingly hailed, and away hurried Mac— 

 for the cow; not once dreaming of the poffi- 

 bility of failure, nor that there could be any 

 rifk of his being left behind. The cow ! the 

 cow ! he had no other idea — nothing but the 

 cow occupied his mind ! In the fame unthink- 

 ing hafte in which he left the (hip did he buftle 

 on when he reached the more. Proceeding 

 without plan, and without thought, he looked 

 only to the cow, and, in his hurry to bring her 

 before the eye, negle&ed the means of con- 

 veying her to the fhip. The propriety of 

 engaging a boat, to return in, not once oc- 

 curred to him— no fooner did he reach the 

 water's edge, than he jumped on more, and 

 ran off in fearch of the perfon's home, from 

 whom the cow had been purchafed : but he 

 now difcovered that, in his hurry, he had 

 only carelefsly liftened to the addrefs ; and- 



