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made painfully aware, however, that Mrs Mays was making it as disagreeable as possible for the freedwoman; and another servant in the house several times expressed her belief, that she would again assault her if she did not succeed in forcing her to leave.

This continued until the morning of the 3rd Inst when the Girl complained that they had refused to give her any breakfast; and I had long since become convinced that they never gave her any more than half fare. On seeing the Land lord, he peremptorily refused to feed her any longer, saying he had notified me that she must leave. Repeating what I had previously said to him, he replied that I had had ample time to make a change. In this emergency I arranged to have the Girl get her meals elsewhere, until, if possible, I could manage to removed my family from the house — but this, however, I must add, I have been wholly unable to do; having utterly failed to get any one else to take us to board even at the one other Hotel here, which is just now entirely empty.

That afternoon further complaint was made to me by the Girl, & her husband (who lived in the village), together, that they had both been notified by Mr Mays that if she were found in the Hotel the next morning, "if it cost