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 Mr. James Spiller, Comedian. 13

So away flies her Mistress up stairs full drive, and the two gentlemen, who had bespoke the room along with her. But when they came to the door, to their great disapointment, they found it both locked and bolted; and he had also drawn a great chest of drawers against it, and placed a great wainscot table against the drawers, and several chairs upon them. So that the gentlemen, at this baulk, were in a terrible passion, and strove to burst the door open: But it being a thick oak door, and so strongly stayed within, it was too much for them to accomplish. So, after they had bounced against it half a dozen of times to no purpose, they stood to ten whether they could learn what he was about; and Spiller at the same time rightly guessed what their sudden silence was for, says to himself (but loud enough for them to hear him) the public inns are sometimes very dangerous places, and a man cannot be too secure in them: but tho' I have the misfortune to have lost my hearing, I think they cannot easily make their way through that strong door and that heavy chest of drawers, and all the other things which I have put against them; and if they should, they can want nothing but to rob and murder me, I am sure.

When they all heard this, the hostess gravely said to the two gentleman.-Gentlemen! Do you hear this. I am glad you did not force open