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10 that their feet were swelled with the hard travelling, being so wet the last night, and they would go on well enough if they had travelled a mile or two. Now the Highlandmen laughed at me the night before when they lay down in the bed I was to have; but I laughed as much to see them trot away in the morning with their boiled brogs in their hands.

PART II.

W again came to a plaeeplace [sic] near Sutry-hill, where the ale was good, and very eivilcivil [sic] usage, and our drouth being very great, the more we drank, the better we loved it. Here we fell in eompanycompany [sic] with a QuaekQuack [sic] DoetorDoctor [sic], who bragged us with bottle about for two days and two nights; only when one fell drunk, he pushed and priekedpricked [sic] him up with a big pin to keep him from sleeping; he bought of our hair, and we of his drugs, he having as muehmuch [sic] knowledge of the one as we had of the other; only I was sure I had as much as would set a whole parish to the midden or mug all at oneeonce [sic]; but, the profit, though all to eomecome [sic], went to the landlady to make up the loss of having the lime p—d off the door cheeks.

But at last our money ran short, and the landlady had no ehalkchalk [sic] nor faith to ereditcredit [sic] us, seeing by our eoatscoats [sic], courage, and eonductconduct [sic], that we would little mind performance against the day of payment: so that we began to turn sober and wise behind the hand, and every one of us to seek supply from another; and then we eollectedcollected [sic] all the money we had amongst us on the table, it was but four pence halfpenny, which we lovingly divided among us, being only three bawbees a-pieeepiece [sic]; and