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8 replied Mr. Spiller, and I’ll leave it; entirely to thee: But be ſure do not let my horſe be changed.—Curſe your, deaf head! quoth the hoſtler; you may be d—’d, and your horſe too, wilh you were both in hell together. Here Mr. Spiller took not the leaf notice of what the hoſtler had ſaid to him but left the horſe with him in the ſtable, and goes himſelf directly into the houſe to get ſomething to drink.

And the hoſtler relieving, that if the horſe ſhould be loſt, he might ſwear that he left him in his charge, and might by that means, come upon him for damages, he therefore tied him up to the manger, gave him ſome hay, and then ran into the houfe, to acquaint his miſtreſs (for ſhe was a widow) what ſtrange and deaf odd fort of a fellow ſhe had got to deal with. By this time, Mr. Spiller was come into the kitchen, and had juſt called for a pint of red wine, but the good hoſteſs being in a hurry, anſwer ed him, that ſhe was very ſorry that ſhe had no place to aſk him to ſit down,