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Council; then proceeded, in substance as follows: Brothers: You remember your former situation when you were in Distress, having leased all your Lands, at old Stock-bridge in New England, one piece after another, to the white people, 'till at last you had no Land left for yourselves. You know; Brothers, in this Distress, we your elder Brother took pity upon you, and gave you this Dish, that you might put a spoon into it and live; and in order