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 the fame of our adventurer’s knowledge in phyic began now to pread) when a peron of Totnes being accidentally preent, happened to ee and know her, and having heard upon enquiry, that the Doctor was married at Wells, as we have above mentioned, related the whole tory of Mr. Ivythorn’s daughter, and the whole adventure at Totnes.

News of this kind eldom wants wings; it reached Wells, and the ears of the Doctor’s mother before her return from Glatonbury. Upon this the old woman immediately ent for her daughter, and very trictly examined her, telling her the great in he would be guilty of, if he concealed a fact of this kind, and the great digrace he would bring on her own family, and even on her whole ex, by living quietly and contentedly with a huband who was in any degree les a man than the ret of his neighbours.

Molly aured her mother of the falehood of this report; and as it is uual for perons who are too eager in any caue, to prove too much, he aerted ome things which taggered her mother’s belief, and made her cry out, O child, there is no uch thing in human nature.

Such was the progres this tory had made in Wells, that before the Doctor arrived there, it was in every body’s mouth; and as the Doctor rode through the treets, the mob, epecially the women, all paid their compliments of congratulation. Some laughed at her, others threw dirt at her, and others made ue of terms of reproach not fit to be commemorated. When he came to her own houe, he found her wife in tears, and having aked her the caue, was informed of the dialogue which had pat between her and her mother. Upon which the Doctor, tho’ he knew not yet by what means the diſ-