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 Mr. James Spiller, Comedian 5

part of the above speculation, and shall proceed to my story.

In the summer season, Mr. Spiller was one day riding to Epsom, and in the evening met with an intimate aquaintance of his who was returning some three or four miles from that town, where (but I know not upon what occasion, except the races) it was so prodigiously full of company, that he could get no accommodation for himself or his horse upon any account.

After some little ceremony had passed between them, the gentleman asked Mr. Spiller where he was bound for? Who answered him, to Epsom.—What, says his freind, do you intend to stay there all night?-Yes Sir, replied Mr. Spiller, you may be sure of that.-Why hen, returned the gentleman, if you do, you must take beds with you, both for yourself and horse too, except you are there provided for already, or else you will find that you must do as I have done, that is to say, come back again: have tried every place in the town, and there s not a bed to be got for love or money, as the laying is.

I'll lay a wager, replied Mr. Spiller, that I get a lodging both for myself and my horse too, let the town be ever so full; and that too, in one of the best inns in the town,-Perhaps said the