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know whether liquor or any thing else made him talk foolishly; but I always observed that, when sober he was the same as another man, but otherwise, when in liquor. This observation I had made, on the foolish speeches he made when in liquor, about two months before the dispute: in those two months liquor seemed to make him quite outrageuous, but it had not such an effect before. Except when he was in liquor, I never observed, that his conversation differed from that of other [ILL] He took his clean shirt out of his chest, which was unlocked, & near his cot. He made no other change in his dress than putting on a clean shirt. I do not remember whether, or not, he