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OF THE NOTORIOUS MRS. BRIDGER. 235
ation of having the house, and some trifling effects, toge-
ther with the good-will, after Mrs. Bridger’s death. She
owed Mrs. Voyer £70, and as a kind of security, she de-
posited her lease in her possession. She still continued to
demand more money; and, having lost her custom, she
commenced an artful project two days before her death ;
which was, to make over all her property, not excepting
any thing, to a Mr. Woodward, for £r5, without ap-
prising him that Mrs. Voyer had a prior engagement.—
He paid her the money on the 21st, and on the 23d he
came to take an inventory of her effects. Seating himself
by the bed, she began to state to him the articles which he
was to enumerate. When she came to mention the silver
spoons, which, she said, were in the drawer at her bed-
head, the old nurse contradicted her, saying, “ Surely
you forget, you made me pawn them last night, and you
burnt the duplicate!” She exclaimed in a rage, “ 1’11
make no more of my will, until the ***** is turned
out of the room!” When the inventory was completely
finished for that room, they went up stairs, to take an ac-
count of what was there; she took that opportunity of
having her clothes made up in a bundle, then took the
ring off her finger, and made them be conveyed away pri-
vately to some person unknown, although they were twice
before disposed of.
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THE WONDERS OF NATURE.
There is an extraordinary tree of Japan which cannot
endure any moisture. The moment it is wetted, it withers
and dies, unless a speedy remedy be applied. If you wish
to bring it again to life, it must be cut down close to the
root, dried in the sun, and transplanted to a very dry soil.
The wife of Jean Gourdin, wood-cutter, living at Cig-
ney, one of the suburbs of St. Dizier, was delivered on the
7th of June 1771, at the end of about seven months, of a
monstrous child, weighing five pounds, and being fourteen
inches
ation of having the house, and some trifling effects, toge-
ther with the good-will, after Mrs. Bridger’s death. She
owed Mrs. Voyer £70, and as a kind of security, she de-
posited her lease in her possession. She still continued to
demand more money; and, having lost her custom, she
commenced an artful project two days before her death ;
which was, to make over all her property, not excepting
any thing, to a Mr. Woodward, for £r5, without ap-
prising him that Mrs. Voyer had a prior engagement.—
He paid her the money on the 21st, and on the 23d he
came to take an inventory of her effects. Seating himself
by the bed, she began to state to him the articles which he
was to enumerate. When she came to mention the silver
spoons, which, she said, were in the drawer at her bed-
head, the old nurse contradicted her, saying, “ Surely
you forget, you made me pawn them last night, and you
burnt the duplicate!” She exclaimed in a rage, “ 1’11
make no more of my will, until the ***** is turned
out of the room!” When the inventory was completely
finished for that room, they went up stairs, to take an ac-
count of what was there; she took that opportunity of
having her clothes made up in a bundle, then took the
ring off her finger, and made them be conveyed away pri-
vately to some person unknown, although they were twice
before disposed of.
/////////
THE WONDERS OF NATURE.
There is an extraordinary tree of Japan which cannot
endure any moisture. The moment it is wetted, it withers
and dies, unless a speedy remedy be applied. If you wish
to bring it again to life, it must be cut down close to the
root, dried in the sun, and transplanted to a very dry soil.
The wife of Jean Gourdin, wood-cutter, living at Cig-
ney, one of the suburbs of St. Dizier, was delivered on the
7th of June 1771, at the end of about seven months, of a
monstrous child, weighing five pounds, and being fourteen
inches