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The conversation between John Bull and his wife.*.
* The history of the Partition Treaty; suspicions at that time that the French King intended to take the whole, and that he revealed the secret to the Court of Spain.
MRS.

BULL .-- Though our affairs, honey, are in a bad condition, I have a better opinion of them since you seemed to be convinced of the ill course you have been in, and are resolved to submit to proper remedies.
But when I consider your immense debts, your foolish bargains, and the general disorder of your business, I have a curiosity to know what fate or chance has brought you into this condition.
JOHN BULL .-- I wish you would talk of some other subject, the thoughts of it makes me mad; our family must have their run.
MRS.

BULL .-- But such a strange thing as this never happened to any of your family before: they have had lawsuits, but, though they spent the income, they never mortgaged the stock.

Sure, you must have some of the Norman or the Norfolk blood in you.