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a Gun, and then it takes a great deal of money to get a new one, we have very few Hoes, and Axes, and such things amon- -gst us, and we are not able to get them. Brothers, I will go along with you to Canan darque, and there we will get matters settled about the Mill, and bring it back to your young men in Writing. Brothers, this is all I have now got to say we will now Shake hands. At the close of this speech we expressed a few words more, representing among other things the un- -reasonableness of their present practice, of their Mothers, Wives, and Sisters, working all day in the fields, and in the Woods, with their hoes, and axes, whilst they themselves were at the same time playing with their Bows and Arrows &;c recommending to them to begin our way by early setting their boys to business, taking them out to how Corn &;c thus by early habitting them to Work, their Minds will be turned to it, business will become familier, and they will not think hard of it. and as they expressed the White People were rich and had plenty, we let them