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PC.773.023
8-15 Feb 1773:153 (318)
Friend John . . . [12 lines, letter to friend about the
Patriotic Society.]
It is agreed to meet every Saturday afternoon down upon
Schuylkill, at our hall vulgarly called Glutton-Hall. When
there, we eat, drink, sing, tell stories, (especially
luscious ones) ridicule, burlesque, and scandalize any
without distinction not belonging to us, and play husslecap;
but all these in order, viz. . . [9 lines, eat first] By
this time we are enabled to sing a song, tell a fat story,
ridicule and laugh at our neighbours, &c. . . [24 lines
describing activities and "meeting" with the "patron" behind
the curtain who] permits the prompter to help him out. He
permits the secretaries to frame, read, and deliver any
thing to the company--but truth; he or they guarding against
modesty which the Patron lays no claim to. He permits them
to crown the evening with wine, punch, or toddy, till they
are incapable of singing, roaring, or abusing the Patriots
or Members of Assembly any longer; and then he permits them
to stagger home . . .
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