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6 me with your company, and return back with me, you ſhall ſee yourſelf that I will —No, no, replied the gen tleman, I'll take your own word for it; and the firſt time we meet in Lon- don, if we have time, we'll have our wager, and a bird to make us merry over the hiſtory of this nights adven- ture;—with all my heart, replied Mr. Spiller: Which ſign do you reckon is the beſt, for that ſhall be the place I mean to lodge at?—After the gentle- man had fatisfied him in that point, they confirmed their wager, and ſo they parted.

When Mr. Spiller came to the inn where he was directed by his friend, he rides directly into the yard, and calling aloud for the hoſtler, he found it quite taken up with other gueſts, and every body in ſuch hurry and confu- ſion, that no creature offered to attend him, or ſee for any body that would.

With that he alights from his Ro- finante, and leads him directly into a ſtable, which was before ſo full of horſes, that there was not room for