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names-on-the-page: Patience, Mrs. C, Mrs. H., Mrs. P, Mr. H

transcription: Patience: "Fifteen pieces and one cracked."

Correct for on delivery the kitchen jars Mrs. C.
gave Mrs. H. the vinegar jar proved not only cracked
but broken. The delivery was made the day following
this sitting. This also was correct, as Mrs. H.
gave Mrs. C. table linen:

Mrs. H: "Do you know what I have for her?"

Patience: "Table store, cross stitched. Nay, then, stitched
across."

Mrs. C: "What is it good for?"

Patience: "A waste ye cannot eat!"

Mrs. H: "What is the color?"

Patience: "Sun shade ere moonshine."

Mrs. H: "Will my other gift please her?" (This gift was aprons)

Patience: "An over-want for work-aday was never hers!"

Mrs. P: "Give me an inscription for my gift to Mrs. C."

This gift was a Fayberry candle and shade and stick.

Patience: "A burning desire never to be snuffed; a waxing
faith, ever to burn."

Patience: "Cannst thou not fill the porringer?"

Mrs. H: "Fill it with what?"

Patience: "A flower, perchance? Ye dip full often!"

Mrs. H: "We won't 'dip' anymore tonight, Patience, if
you will tell my husband something about the
business that is worrying him."

Patience: "A wench who beareth tales should have a slitted
tung!"

Mrs. H: "We don't want you to betray anything but you
could advise him."

Patience: "He should build his road and travel thereon.
A dark horse shall prove a donkey."

Mrs. H: "Has he neglected anything he should have done?"

Patience: "He soweth, but diggeth not to depths."

Just here Mr. H. wrote a question in shorthand on a
scrap of paper and placed it on the board.

Patience: "Oh weary not. 'Tis triffle. Thou hast the
trump. The knave shall fall at that."

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