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Alas, poore gentleman, something now agen is ready to strangle him; out with em, hides, hides, it was the hornes stuck in his gullett. Within. Oh Tho. Well straind; what a foule stomack he has! open your mouth, Mr. Engine. Cap. Throw downe a pottlepot. Tho. I have, sir, and it has come up full of medium wine; if you have any charity come and helpe me to hold his head; now agen! Within. Oh, oh, oh!
It is true that he departed in quest of some Carpenter's Tools, which he declared would do the job quite as well; but, again to my good luck, the carpenter was as Rare a pottlepot as he; and they two took to boiling rum in a calabash and drinking of it, and smoking of Tobacco, and playing at Skimming Dish Hob, Spie the Market, Shove-halfpenny, Brag, Put, and Dilly Dally, and other games that reminded them of the old country, for days and nights together so that the old Negro woman that belonged to the carpenter, seeing them gambling and drinking in the morning just as she had left them drinking and gambling the overnight, stared with amazement like a Mouse in a Throwster's mill.
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