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10 The comical adventures of that may ſoon tire him of being here The hoſtler's advice was though very good, and therefore reſolved on by his miſtreſs to be put in execution So there ſtood poor Spiller, for ſome time, ſtaring about him, and could neither get a ſeat to fit down, nor any thing to drink; but by and by, obſerving the ſervants to carry out of the kitchen a cover of ſmoking hot diſhes, he immediately follows them into a room, where there was about twenty gentlemen going to ſupper So, as ſoon as he came into the room he pulled off his hat, and after hanging it upon a peg, he ſtood there a mute as a fiſh. At length, one of the gentlemen obſerving him, and all that he was a ſtranger, demanded.- Who does this gentleman want?

But they all ſtared at him for ſome time, but nobody claiming any knowledge of him, one of them ſaid to him Sir, we are here a ſelect company, do you want any body, pray?-No ceremony with me, replied Mr. Spiller, I beg gentlemen, that you will not diſturb yourſelves upon my