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SCGCJ.765.003
17 Dec 1765:23 (1)
The following are copies of the labels affix'd on the breast
of each of the above mentioned effigies [hung up in Boston],
viz.
On that representing G---ge G--nv--le, holding out a Stamp
Act in his left hand.
Your servant sirs, do you like my figure,
You've seen one rogue, but here's a bigger;
Father of mischief ! how I soar,
Where many a rogue has gone before.
. . . [6 lines more]
On the figure representing J--n H--sk.
Quest.
What, Brother H--sk, why this is bad?
Ans. Ah indeed! but I am a wicked lad;
My mother always thought me wild,
The gallows is thy portion child
. . . [9 more lines.]
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