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—Excuse the naturality of my metaphor.— Speaking of "naturality" reminds me of the peculiarities that
—My period of purgation is almost up in these diggins.—Thank the pitying fates!
in two weeks more I shall wind up my affairs, and with tears in my eyes bid a sorrowful adieu to these
—My heart swells, and my melting soul almost expires with the agonising idea.
—Luckily for my self-complacency they are mostly whigs.
My friend, Why the dickins didn't you come out to the whig meeting at the court house, last Saturday
—The awful occasion impressed indeliby upon my memory every agonising moment of that infernal excursion
skin is even now peeling, and four mortal pounds of flesh which ran off in a state of dilution from my
lumps of red hot fire—not a tree not a shed to shelter us from the intolerable glare.— I gave you in my
last some account of my first "huckleberry frolick," but this beats it all hollow.
My dear L— I perform the thrice-agreeable office of informing you that my purgatory here is just finishing
At present I think it improbable that I shall pay any visit to Jamaica, though I should like to see my
"— —"O. how my spirit springs and grows elastick at the idea of leaving this diabolical, and most p articularly
Woodbury Thursday July 30 My friend I feel but little in the humour for writing any thing that will have
live here ten hours he would fret himself to death: I have heard the words "thank you," but once since my
—It was fun no doubt, but it cost me two mortal pounds of flesh, besides numerous remnants of my apparrel
a miserable kind of a dog: I am sick of wearing away by inches, and spending the fairest portion of my
—I pray the fates he may rid me of my spleen ere long W. W. Abrahan P. Leech | Jamaica L.I.
—That this earthly habitation, is a place of torment to my miserable self, is made painfully evident
—you do not know, my friend, nor can you conceive, the horrid dulness of this place.
—And as avocations of this nature never met my fancy in any great degree, you may easily imagine what
O, ye gods, press me not too far—pour not my cup too full—or I know what I shall do.
—Dire and dreadful thoughts have lately been floating through my brain.