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confined to my bed, stood at my chamber door, and in my hearing confirmed her bargain, which was, - one half the money $3-, in advance, the other half before the end of the second week. A few hours after the man's wife left I engaged my basement at $3-00, and I felt some relief. This was on the 5th. The next day a lady called, examined the rooms, and was anxious to have them. She gave her Clergyman as a reference & Paymaster. When the man returned I told him of offer, and he respectfully and warmly plead for his rooms, told me everybody knew him as a correct man, always in good employment as principal hand at the Guano Mills, and depositing some rough bundles in the best room, gave his name, Armistead Banks, took possession. In nothing did he keep his word. People who were a positive nuisance he brought in my home his wife went to Norfolk leaving a strong nervous boy of a year old to be weaned by an ignorant girl of 16, I was made much worse by the child screaming all day, and not one cent of rent could I beg from this man. On the night of the 19th just before mid-night, I became suspicious of the quiet over-head, and found Banks and all his family removed, taking bed &c &c, my doors and gate wide open, a fire of coal on the hearth, near it a pile of broken up pine wood, with thousands of splinters and sharp points, on the hearth, the floor, and passage a number of articles of cotton cloth scatters. Now will any reasonable

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-09 19:37:47 This needs another review. Somehow the top [first]line has been inserted improperly in the middle of another paragraph? It's puzzling me to fix it. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-10 14:41:24 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-10 22:19:55