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NHG-P.758.051
13 Oct 1758:43 (106)
To be sold at the Printing Office in Portsmouth, Father
Abraham's Speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of
merchant goods; introduced to the publick by Poor Richard (a
famous Pennsylvania conjurer and almanack maker) in answer
to the following questions. Pray, Father Abraham, what
think you of the times? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin
the country? How shall we be ever able to pay them? What
would you advise us to? To which are added, seven curious
pieces of writing, viz. 1. The welcome guinea, a poem. 2.
Consolation for the lonely. 3. A grand compliment to the
ladies. 4. The two sinners, the pope, and the devil, a
poetical tale. 5. An infallible cure for love. 6. And
old song, wrote by one of our first New England planters, on
their management in those good old times, to the tune of A
Cobbler there was, &c. 7. Poor Richard's description of
his country wife Joan, in a song to the tune of The Hounds
are all out, &c. (price six coppers).
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