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goat, - but that he wd not give the goat to the man who had now come for it.
I told this to the drunken man, who thereupon insisted that he wd have the money or the goat, & was abusive; - he sd the old man was a beggar dependant on him, to whom he gave a Loaf every day.
I attempted to turn him out & bolt the door, when he gave me a push and entered the house. My Mar was