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ing waked out of my Sleep, and not having a Mind that
they ihould know any more than they could find out, I
fpoke not a Word, they then went to my Neil, and
examining it, found the Things which I told you o£
before; upon feeing which, and the Boots and Stock-
ings making the Matter clearer, I told them how I got
in, and in ihort own'd the whole of every Thing. They
then fent for a Conilable and charg'd me, and went to
fee if the Juftice was at Leifure, but he it feems was
gone out of Town, fo they hired thereupon a couple of
fturdy Fellows to fit up with me, and I thought if I
got from them it muft be fome Policy or other.
Now ail the Family were gone to Bed and left me and
the two Fellows with Beer and Tobacco before us, e-
nough to make us all drunk, of which I pretended to
drink very heartily, and took the Pot oftner than k
came to my Turn, and at laft pretended to fall faft a-
fleep, and fnoared enormoufly, but at the fame Time
heard all they faid j Zounds, fays one, h(nij found the
poor Felkvj Jleeps not'withflanding his Misfortune : Ah,
lays the fecond, being alraoll as faft afleep feemingly as
I was ; Jack, cries the iirft, you are afleep. No, fays
the fecond, iut I am njery fleepy, do let me fleep for art
Hour and then mjake me, and Fll tvatch nuhileyou fleep ;
agreed, fays the lirfl:, and fo the fecond fettled himi'elf
to fleep, and in about a quarter of an Hour the firil
overtook him. As foon as I found they were both,
faft, J rofe and went towards the Place where they had
hung the Boots, which they had pulPd off as foon as
they had took me; but before I could get at them, the
Matter of the Houfe waked, and hearing no Noife, calls
to one of them by his Name, who not anfwering, he
jump'd out of Bed, and came down Stairs to wake
them: As foon as I heard him move I got into my
Place, and was as faft afleep as ever; Pi^thee, fays he
to them, Dont fleep, you'll let thi Man get an>jay ; on
which they rouzM, No, fays they, ave ivon^t. Upon
•whicli the Mafter of the Houfe went up to Bed again,
and in a few Minutes my Guards were relapfed into a
State
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