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betwixt us; but being obliged to be very much out of
Town, he took my Brother with him on Neiv-Tears
Eve, and for fear I fliould want any Thing in the Shop
before he came back, he order'd him to leave me the
Money. I was vexed that he who was fix Years
younger than me fliould be trufted before me; and two
or tliree young Gentlemen Attornies Clerks, having ap-
pointed to end the old Year merrily with me, I con-
fented, and we went to a Houfe where we had Punch
and minc'd Pies ; in ftiort I continu'd there till the next
Night, and had fpent the \\ s. and not caring to go
Home then, I went to an Acquaintance and lay all
Night with him, and the next Day I met with my
Brother, and he asked me where the Money was ? I
reply'd, Spent, What, fays he, luor^t you come to Work ?
I made little or no Anfwer to that, but went away,
and idled my Time at one Place or other as long as I
had any Money, and when I had none left, I began
to return to my former Courfe, like the Dog to his
Vomit.
And one Night getting into a Stable behind the
Academy in Chancery-Lane, I lay ftill all that Night
and the next Day, till it was the Dulk of the Evening,
and then getting into a kind of a Hay-Loft belonging
to Mr. Moor of T^hree Arrow-Court, which is conti-
guous to the Grammar School; I got out of the Loft
into the faid School Window, where there was Lin-
nen drying, of which I took feveral Shirts, a Handker-
chief, fome Books, i^c. and went down again unfeen.
That lafted me fome Days, bijt as I foon wanted a
Supply, I got into a little back Ware-houfe belonging
to Mr. Carter a Glazier in Beli-Tard, I attempted to
break thro' his Ware-houfe into an Office belonging to
Mr. Parker an Attorney in Bailey-Court; but having
ftruck a Light, the Light was feen thro' the Cravice of
the Door, upon which feveral People came along with
Mr. Parker, and feeing the Hole I had broke in the
Boards, fearched for me ; I was then got in between
the Rafters and the Tyles, when the Glazier's Man
bringing