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had almoft fpoiled him ; for I never eat or 
drank any thing without allowing him part of 
it. If I fometimes happened to forget him, 
as he was a fworn enemy to my abfence of 
thought, he took great care to roufe me from 
my reveries by patting my hand, or fmacking 
his Hps. I have ah-eady faid that he v>^as re- 
markably gluttonous ; his temperament led 
him to extremes ; for he was equally fond of 
milk, and of ftrong liquors. I never gave him 
any of the latter but in a plate, which I gene- 
rally ordered to be placed before him ; as I 
obferved that every time he had drank it from 
a glafs, his precipitation made him take as much 
by the nofe as by the mouth, fo that he coughed 
and fneezed for whole hours , which incom- 
moded him very much, and might have at 
length caufed him to break fome blood vefTel. 
He was then on the ground clofe by me, 
waiting till his allowance fliould be ferved up 
to him; and following with his eyes the bottle 
which was palTmg round, and which flopped 
at each of my Hottentots. With what impa- 
tience did he wait for his turn ! How ftrongly 
did he exprefs by his motions and looks that 
he feared the cruel bottle would be emptied toct 
fpon, and would not reach him ! But^ alas [ the 
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