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• mour'd the Thing, finding they knew nothing of my
laft Nights Exploit which I was at iirlt afraid they did,
fays I, if I leave the Wig with you will you let me
go ? Stay, fays he, and hear nvhat my Brother fays, who
coming in juit then, he wink'd at him, he taking the
Hint, fays, Mr.' is not at Home, fo I did not tell
any Body ivhat I ivanted '•with him ; upon which the
other put the Queiiion to him, who turning to me fays,
Ha've you got any Money ? I replying in the Negative,
fays he, / ivould not 'voillingly be the Means of any poor
Man's being hangd, git'e us the Wig and flip aivay. I
return'd then fhort upon them and faid, Are not you a
tcapk cf Rsg-ues? Bllknovj mikctker you Jhall flop People
in this manner to rob and defraud them; with that I
-took up a Pot, and knocking hard on the Table, I
-called out, Landlord, does e'ver a Conftable linje here
about ? He heard me knock, and came to the Door,
but did not hear what I faid, and before I could re-
peat the Queflion again, one of them faid. Go fetch
7ne a ^artern of Brandy, and therev/ith one went
cut, the other faying to me. You had better not make a
Noife ; the Landlord coming, fays T, I did not call you
•fir this, I ivant no Brandy; fays the other, 1 called
for it, here take the Reckoning, giving him a Shilling,
and whilft he was gone for Change he run out after the
other as fail as he could, leaving me the Brandy and
the 3 d. to do what I wou'd with.- When the Land-
lord came I took the 3 d. and filling out half, I drank
to the Landlord and went about my Bufmefs; and
coming to London I chang'd away my Jacket and
•Breeches for a pair of Breeches, Jacket and Trowzers
that were fit for me, and had fome Money to boot;
and when I had fpent that, I fold my Hat and Wig,
and got an old one to wear, and having likewife fpent
that, I was forc'd to betake me to my Shifts again.
And having been to Fulham, I over-took a young
Woman who had been a Milking, and was carrying it
Home, (as I came along I faw a Mulberry Tree, and
had gather'd my Hat full) and alking her to eat fome
Mulberries,