corrupt, and short-sighted job, the consequences of which would
reach, in the shape of some new tax, every ramification of society;-
-with divers other American argumentatives to the same effect.
However, in process of time, by a judicious handling and the help of
an advantageous free grassum, which we got for some of the town
lands from Mr Shuttlethrift the manufacturer, who was desirous to
build a villa-house, we got the flagstone part of the project
accomplished, and the landlords gradually, of their own free-will,
put up the ronns, by which the town has been greatly improved and
convenienced.

But new occasions call for new laws; the side pavement,
concentrating the people, required to be kept cleaner, and in better
order, than when the whole width of the street was in use; so that
the magistrates were constrained to make regulations concerning the
same, and to enact fines and penalties against those who neglected
to scrape and wash the plainstones forenent their houses, and to
denounce, in the strictest terms, the emptying of improper utensils
on the same; and this, until the people had grown into the habitude
of attending to the rules, gave rise to many pleas, and contentious
appeals and bickerings, before the magistrates. Among others
summoned before me for default, was one Mrs Fenton, commonly called
the Tappit-hen, who kept a small change-house, not of the best
repute, being frequented by young men, of a station of life that
gave her heart and countenance to be bardy, even to the bailies. It
happened that, by some inattention, she had, one frosty morning,
neglected to soop her flags, and old Miss Peggy Dainty being early
afoot, in passing her door committed a false step, by treading on a
bit of a lemon's skin, and her heels flying up, down she fell on her
back, at full length, with a great cloyt. Mrs Fenton, hearing the