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I was waiting inside to pay him. "Let her come here & do it then he replied" & there he stood guarding the trunk & using very abusive language to the effect "that I was intending to run away & had cheated him all kindes in paying such a small price for board." He set the price & agreed to furnish board, fires & lights for $20 per month.
The first month I was there & for two weeks on the second month his wife was sick. I did the work & took care of her & then paid them full board. After her girl came back she insisted upon doing my washing as a return for what I had done. They did it three months when I overhearing a complaint about