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no difficult Matter, as his Head was always adied.
Accordingly I addrefled him in a very fociabie man-
ner, Pry thee Will, {aid I, nvhy Jhould you and I fall out,
j: ill I I _ your Mother and I never difagreed in all our Lives, ft
dovjn, take thy Glafs, /moke thy Pipe, and be good Com-
pany ; if I have any ivays offended you in W^ord or Deed,
P11 beg your Pardon viith all my Heart.
Ail this one would think might pacify any reafonable
Perfon; but he ftill grumbled in his Gizzard, andmut-
ter'd out. No, Mr. Everett, Pll neither drink mr fmoak
'with fuch a Perfon as you are, for IJhall never forget
ivhat you were pleafed to fay when you ivas committed to
Newgate with Mr. Bambridge, that you Jhould live to
fee me hanged.
Come, come, faid I, (fill cool and -patient) I own
^ttvas an indecent ExpreJJion, and only Jpoke in the Heat
cf PaJJion ; I heartily beg your Pardon, and as you pro-
fefs yourfelf a Chrifiian Will, fou Jhould firget and for ^
give.
In fliort by my good Conduft, and the Interpoiition
of a paciiying Word now and then of his Motiier's, J
prevaiPd at laft on my young boill'rous Booby to fit
down and be eafy.
I did not doubt now but my Projeft would prove fuc-
cefsful, and by plying him clofe with Bumper after
Bumper, and a little forc'd Mirth, I foon made him as
drunk as a Swab; in a quarter of an Hoar he /lept like
a Top, and fnoar'd louder than the Fall of London-
Bridge at Low Water. Upon this I rang the Bell,
without any Danger of interrupting his Golden Slum-
bers, and order'd the Drawer to call a Coach, whidi
the Fellow did accordingly with all the Expedition I
could wilh ,• upon which I difcharg'd the Reckoning,
tipp'd him a Tefter, and gave him llrift Orders to let
my Companion take his Nap out.
! hereupon I hugg'd my dear Widow under my Arm,
handed her into the Cosch, and away we jogg'd to a
dillant Booking-Ken to conclude our Amours^ which had
been fo unhappily interrupted. J pJay'd the Part of a
Gallant