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 crown each, for country sake, and very well entertained him at their house.

Our hero exercising his profession at Millbury, where the ’squire's father live, and to whom the son was come on a visit, Mr Carew made application to him, and knocking at the door, on its being open, saw the young ’squire sitting alone, whom Mr Rhodes interrupted by saying he was twice in one day imposed upon by that rogue, Carew, of whose gang you may likely be; besides, I do not live here, but am a stranger. In the mean time comes the old ’squire with a bottle of wine in his hand, giving Carew a wink to let him understand he knew him, and then very gravely enquired into the circumstances of his misfortunes, and also of the affairs and inhabitants of Dartmouth, from whence he pretended to have failed several times of all which he gave a full and particular account; whereupon the old ’squire gave him half a crown, and the young one the same; on which Carew and the the old man burst into a laughter, and discovered the whole affair, at which, ’squire Rhodes was a little chagrined at being imposed on a third time; but on recollecting the expertness of the