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 18 Obadiah Mousetrap.

well, whether he thinks, (though he be called to no account for it in this life) the cries and groans of succeeding generations that lie under the oppressions and distress, which he before had caused and brought upon them, will have no impression upon his final JUDGE, that nay move him to teward and punish his treasons! That man who would sell his trust, I am persuaded, would not bogle at any thing for gain; that is, I mean, if he could conceive himself secure from the power of the law; and therefore the following proceedings of our good friend Obadiah Mousetrap, will, in my opinion, be the easier justified, or at least excused.

Our friend Obadiah Mousetrap, who was a Quaker, and a commander of a trading vessel was just returned from a voyage, into the river of London, when he had a couple of custom-house officers, as is usual, immediately clapt on board him: But it happened, than two or three days after, the sly old fox had a mid to sound the depth of those worthy gentlemen's honesty: whether with any view to serve his own interest, I shall leave my reader to judge of