Feb. 23, 1739.1. Now were yon in vast hopes you should hear no more from me, I being slow in my motions; but do not flatter yourself; you began the correspond. ence, set my pen a-going, and God knows when it will end; for I had it by inheritance from my father, ever to please myself when I could; and though I do not just take the turn my mother did, of fasting and praying, yet to be sure that was her pleasure too, or else she would not have been so greedy of it. I do not care to deliver your message this great while to lieutenant Head, he have
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