Life discover their fondness be such rough play if I may be allowed the comparison as may on such occasions be observed among Cats and other animals of the brute creation. Immediately after the priest has performed his office at the Altar of joining this amiable Couple for life they repair still holding each other by the hand to the person in charge of the Post on whose lips each bestows three smacks in return for which he gives them a Bottle of rum and a loaf of Bread. With this they make merry among their friends and as soon as the fumes of the liquor has heated their brains and armed them with courage they harass him out of his five senses for more to celebrate this memorable day. This day of merriment and rejoining being over and this lovely pair launched into the tempestuous ocean of a married Life the husband attends to the important Duties of hunting and the wife to her domestic affairs. And much harmony reigns between them till a false step of her's alarms his delicate sentiments of honour and drives him for redress into the arms of another. Thus frequently Hymen's knot is forever Dissolving[.]

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