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BG.765.038
14 Oct 1765:31 (550)
Messieurs Edes & Gill, I han't rit nothing to be printed a
great while: but I can't sleep a nights, one wink hardly,
of late.--I hear so much talk about the stamp act and the
governor's speech, that it seems as if 'twould make mae
crazy.--The governor has painted a dreadful picture of the
times after the first of November.--I hate the thoughts of
the first of November. I hope twill be a great storm, and
black and gloomy weather, as our faces and hearts will all
be.--Tis worse than all the fifth of Novembers that ever
was--The Pope never did half so much mischief, as that stamp
act will do, if the world stands as long as the Pope has
done.----. . . [30 lines:] I don't believe our young folks
would love to dance together at husking frolicks, and to
kiss one another a bit the less, if they wore wollen shirts
and shifts of their own making, than they do now in their
fine ones.--. . . [signed] Humphry Ploughjogger. . .
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