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Saith
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That he Come into the Slaughter house Accidentally And
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some of the People in the Slaughter house said "Peter You have
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Lost All the Fun"That Dobbs's Man
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Thomas Lewis
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had been FightingThat when
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Informant Came in Allen was telling Lewis that he would
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fight him for a Crown and
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directly afterwards
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they stripd' naked and went to fightingThat
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Thomas
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Lewis
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Desired they might have fair Play And Informant
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and the Others told them they shouldThat they
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throwd' One another and Hit One another Monstrous hard
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And they fought about Eight or Ten Minutes
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gave Allen One Blow which Knock'd
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him down Informant thinks that Blow was given
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about the RibsThat as they were making a sort
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of a Feint at One another Allen to Save a Blow fell
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into a Tub of WaterThat only
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's Arm
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was in the Tub of WaterThat Bob Drewry
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got Allen Out of the TubThat then Allen went
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into the Slaughter house And Turn'd very Pale
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And would not Put on any of his ThingsThat Mr. Warner
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Sent for some GinAnd the Deceased Drank some
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of itThat he Desired to Sit down And then Lay down
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on his sideAfterwards he went to Ease himself
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And then Lay down again And Complained of want of
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Breath And Died in about Eighteen or Twenty Minutes
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