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_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, November 20, 1735
_The little Epistle in our last, has produced no less than six,
which follow in the order we receiv'd 'em._
Mr. _Franklin_,
`I cannot conceive who your Correspondent means by _the
prettiest Creature_ in this Place; but I can assure either him or
her, that she who is truly so, has no Affectation at all.'
_SIR,_
`Since your last Week's Paper I have look'd in my Glass a
thousand Times, I believe, in one Day; and if it was not for the
Charge of Affectation I might, without Partiality, believe myself the
Person meant.'
Mr. _Franklin_,
`I must own that several have told me, I am the prettiest
Creature in this Place; but I believe I shou'd not have been tax'd
with Affectation if I cou'd have thought as well of them as they do
of themselves.'
_SIR,_
`Your Sex calls me pretty; my own affected. Is it from
Judgment in the one, or Envy in the other?'
Mr. _Franklin_,
`They that call me affected are greatly mistaken; for I don't
know that I ever refus'd a Kiss to any Body but a Fool.'
_Friend Benjamin,_
`I am not at all displeased at being charged with Affectation.
Thou know'st the vain People call Decency of Behaviour by that Name.'
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, November 27, 1735
_A Sea Monster_
From Bermuda, they write, that a Sea Monster has been lately
seen there, the upper part of whose Body was in the Shape and about
the Bigness of a Boy of 12 Years old, with long black Hair; the lower
Part resembled a Fish.
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