DOUBLE PUNISHMENT.

THE captain of the Magnanime found it necessary one day to order a negro

on board a flogging. Being tied up, the captain harangued him on his

offence. Quaco, naked and shivering in the month of December, exclaimed,

"Massa! if you preachee, preachee; if you floggee, floggee; but no

preachee and floggee too."

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