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 saluted with a tantivee, tantivee, and a haloo to the dogs on which they turned about supposing it to be some other sportsmen but seeing nobody, they directly supposing it to be Carew in the disguise of the old Kirton grandmother, so bidding the servants fetch her back, she was brought into the parlour among them all and confessed himself to be the famous Mr Bamfylde Moore Carew, to the astonishment and mirth of them all, who well rewarded him for the diversion he had afforded them

In like manner he raised a contribution twice in one day. of Mr Jones, near Bristol. In the morning with a sooty face, leather apron, a dejected countenance, and a woollen cap he was generously relieved as an unfortunate blacksmith, whose all had been consumed by fire. In the afternoon he exchanged his legs for crutches, and with a dejected countenance, pale face, and every sign of pain, he became a disabled tinner, incapable of maintaining a wife and seven small children, by the damps and hardships he had suffered in the mines; and so well acted his part that the tinner got as well relieved in the afternoon as the blacksmith in the morning.