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cleansing not floors merely, with
this filthy people — Happily we
did not know, & it was best not
to think of, how our spoons, knives
forks &) &) [et cetera et cetera] were polished

This court served also as a sort of
[illegible?] drawing room, where we could
meet after dinner, & sit on the steps
looking down to it, conversing
to pass the time away. Or [[Mr [Mister] D—]]
& [[Mr [Mister] W—]] would join the boys in a
game at tig or pitch & toss, while
the rest ofthe party looked on, & en=
joyed the sport, it was well that
there were boys in the party, to give
an excuse for this sort of amuse=
ment — Or our French Friends
would join in a family groupe,
singing together French songs or hymns

Our first day of discomfort having
come to a close, we next morning re=
ceived the joyful summons to [illegible?]
our cloathes _ no one that has not
submitted to this kind of stripping
can tell how many little necessary

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