Question And Answer
A QUAKER was examined before the Board of Excise, respecting certain
duties; the commissioners thinking themselves disrespectfully treated by
his theeing and thouing, one of them with a stern countenance asked
him, Pray, sir, do you know what we sit here for?--Yea, replied
Nathan, I do; some of thee for a thousand, and others for seventeen
hundred and fifty pounds a year.