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18 John to stop the horse; John meets him on the top of the bridge, and when he would not be stopped for him, he knocks the horse on the face with the napkin rave, and most of the half-pence flew over the bridge in the water, which made poor John go home craing very bitterly for his loss, and dread of the old plaister, which he got very sickerly.

MISFORTUNE VII.

On the next morning, she sent him again to the bridge, to see if he could find any of it in the water, and there he found some ducks swimming and ducking down with their heads below the water, as he thought, gathering up his money, he kills one of them, and rips her up, but found none of it in her guts or gabbie; then says he, they have been but looking for it, I'll go do as they did, strips of his clothes and leaves them on the bridge goes in a ducking, in which time, a ragman came past, and took away all his clothes. So he went home naked