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E again came to a place near Sutty hill, where the ale was good, and very civil usage, and our drought being very great, the more we drank, the better we lov'd it: And here we fell in company with a quack-doctor, who bragged us with bottle about, for two days and two nights, only when one fell drunk, we puſhed and pricked him up with a big pin, to keep him from ſleeping: He bought of our hair, and we of his pills and drugs, he having as much 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 once: But the profit, though all to come, went to the landlady to make up the loſs of having the lime piſh'd off her door cheeks, and what we did not piſh, we ſcyth'd through our teeth, and gave the dogs the girt bits.

But at laſt our money ran ſhort, and the landlady had no chalk nor faith to credit us, ſeeing by our coats, courage, and conduct, that we would little mind performance againſt the day of payment; ſo then we began to turn ſober and wiſe behind the hand, and every one of us to ſeek ſupply from another, and when we collected all the money we had amongſt us, on the table, it was but four-pence halfpenny, which we lovingly divided among us, but only three bawbees a piece, and as Drouthy Tom's ſtock and mine was conjunct, we gave the quack again his ſhg ſtuff and ſtinking mugs, and he gave us our goods and pickles of hair, which we equally divided betwixt us, the whole of it only came to eighteen ſhillings and ſix-pence prime coſt, and ſo we parted: I went for Eaſt Lothian, and Tom for the Weſt; but my ſorting of goods being very unſuitable for that country, I got but little or no