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done this to my pa and jumped upon his body with his feet and
also langwedge which I will not pollewt my pen with describing,
he assaulted my ma with dreadful violence, dashed her to the
earth, and drove her back comb several inches into her head. A
very little more and it must have entered her skull. We have a
medical certifiket that if it had, the tortershell would have affected
the brain.

‘Me and my brother were then the victims of his feury since
which we have suffered very much which leads us to the arrowing
belief that we have received some injury in our insides, especially
as no marks of violence are visible externally. I am screaming out
loud all the time I write and so is my brother which takes off my
attention rather and I hope will excuse mistakes.

‘The monster having sasiated his thirst for blood ran away,
taking with him a boy of desperate caracter that he had excited to
rebellyon, and a garnet ring belonging to my ma, and not having
been apprehended by the constables is supposed to have been
took up by some stage-coach. My pa begs that if he comes to you
the ring may be returned, and that you will let the thief and
assassin go, as if we prosecuted him he would only be transported,
and if he is let go he is sure to be hung before long which will save
us trouble and be much more satisfactory. Hoping to hear from
you when convenient

‘I remain ‘Yours and cetrer

‘FANNY SQUEERS.
‘P.S. I pity his ignorance and despise him.’

A profound silence succeeded to the reading of this choice
epistle, during which Newman Noggs, as he folded it up, gazed


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