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"It is liberty"-"Well, then, I have o

to my own kirk, to sail the 'Great Christopher' when and where I will

My house, my wife, my little children, nobody has touched"

"Pray, sir, what of your rights? your honour?"

"Oh, indeed, then, for ideas I quarrel not! Facts, they are different

Every man has his own creed, and every man his own liberty, so say

I--Come here, Alida," and he waved his hand imperiously to a little

wo at the hat's the

ain I see that you have a

discontented temper There is a spot on your petticoat also, and your

cap is awry I fear that you will never becoood pattern to your little sister

Femmetia"

Evidently he wished to turn the current of the conversation; but as soon

as the child had been sent to her ht, Batavius, plenty of young o, who have no arms and no clothes: send in your

place one of them"

"It is my fixed principle not to meddle in the affairs of other people,

and my principles are sacred to o that the colonists were leaving the old

ship, and that the first in the new boat would have the choice of oars"