Part 6 (1/2)

_WA_--Ay, sir, with such force as is not to be resisted

_RC_--Pray, Will, let us knohat passed between you and your wife; for I know so of it already

_WA_--Sir, it is iive you a full account of it; I aue to express it; but let her have said what she will, though I cannot give you an account of it, this I can tell you, that I have resolved to amend and reform in, Will? For this has been an extraordinary case, that is certain She has preached a serht this upon you

_WA_--Why, I first told her the nature of our laws about e, and what the reasons were that ed to enter into such compacts as it was neither in the power of one nor other to break; that otherwise, order and justice could not be maintained, and men would run from their wives, and abandon their children, mix confusedly with one another, and neither faal descent

_RC_--You talk like a civilian, Will Could you make her understand what you s aard to relation, consanguinity, or family; brother and sister, nay, as I have been told, even the father and the daughter, and the son and the mother

_WA_--I believe, sir, you are misinformed, and my wife assures me of the contrary, and that they abhor it; perhaps, for any further relations, they may not be so exact as we are; but she tells me never in the near relationshi+p you speak of

_RC_--Well, what did she say to what you told her?

_WA_--She said she liked it very well, as it was much better than in her country

_RC_--But did you tell her what ue I asked her if she would be married to e was appointed by God; and here we had a strange talk together, indeed, as ever ue between Will Atkins and his wife, which I took down in writing just after he told it me, was as follows:--

_Wife_--Appointed by your God!--Why, have you a God in your country?

_WA_--Yes, my dear, God is in every country

_Wife_--No your God in reat old Benamuckee God

_WA_--Child, I am very unfit to show you who God is; God is in heaven and made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is

_Wife_--No makee de earth; no you God hed a little at her expression of God not h h

[He was justly reproved by his wife, for she was more serious than he at first]

_WA_--That's true, indeed; I will not laugh any more, my dear

_Wife_--Why you say you God makee all?

_WA_--Yes, child, our God s; for He is the only true God, and there is no God but Him He lives for ever in heaven

_Wife_--Why you no tell o?

_WA_--That's true, indeed; but I have been a wicked wretch, and have not only forgotten to acquaint thee with anything before, but have lived without God in the world reat God in your country, you no know Hi for Hih, for all that, we live as if there was no God in heaven, or that He had no power on earth

_Wife_--But why God let you do so? Why He no ood live?