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12 coffin, and as they were going into the house, Toro's other, standing at the door, asked the master how he did, and where he was going with that fine coin? He did not know well what to say, being so surprised to see her alive; but at last he told her, her son brought in the measure yesterday, and had got a guinea and a half from him, when he said was to buy some other necessaries for the funeral. the rogue! said she, has he play'd me that? So the wright got his guinea and a half, and so much for his trouble, and had to take back his coffin with him again. 8, Tom being now short of money again, began to think how he could raise a fresh supply; so he went to the port amongst the shearers, and there be hired about thirty of them, and agreed to give them a whole week's shearing at ten pence a-day, which was twopence higher than any had got that year; this made the poor shearers think he was an honest, generous and genteel master as ever they got, for he took them all into an ale-house, and give them a hearty breakfast, till they could eat no more. Now, says he, when there is so many of you together, perhaps from different parts, and unacquaieted