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21 the depth of thoſe worthy gentlemen's honefly. whether with any view to ſerve his own intereſt, l shall leave my reader to judge of. So one day, as he was walking upon the deck with them, and talking of indifferent things, he ſays to one of them, (we’ll ſuppoſe him whom he thought propereſt to begin with) friend, wilt thou go into my cabin, and drink a glaſs of rum? I have a caſk of that which is quite neat, if thou wilt come and taſte it, and give me thy opinion of it, I ſhall be obliged to thee. The officer com- plied, and they each of them drank a glaſs or two of it; and which the of- ficer very much praiſed. The Quaker perceiving his ſpirits a little elevated, and believing him in a proper cite for his purpoſe, pulled out of his packet a green purſe, with about fixty guineas in it, ſays he, Friend, as far as I can, perceive of thee, thou appeared: to be a perſon of quick fight and good un- demanding; therefore I ſhall have I no occaſion to make a multitude of I words, where I only wiſh to ſpeak, and ſraight be underdood. Thou feeſt this green purſe, and what it