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 big and weighty. Then I came into a little country village, and going in by the ſide of a houſe, was a great big cat ſitting in a weaver's window, beiking herſelf in the ſun, and waſhing her  with her feet: I takes her a civil knap on the, which makes her turn back in through the window, and the weaver having a plate full of hot pottage in the innerſide to cool, poor badrons ran through  middle of them, burnt her feet, and threw them  to the ground, ran through the houſe, crying fire  murder in her own language, which cauſed the  wicked webſter to come running to the door,  he attacked me in a furious rage, and I to avoid {{reconstruct|the} firſt ſhock, fled to the top of the midden, where,  to give me a kick, I catched him by  foot, and tumbled him back over into the dirty -dib, where both his head and ſhoulders  under dirt and water; but before I could recover my elwand or arms, the wicked wife and her  ſons was upon me in all quarters, the wife  in my hair, while the twa ſons boxed me  and before, and being thus overpowered by , I was fairly beat by this wicked webſter,  troops being ſo numerous,

The ſame day, as I was going up to a country-, I met on the way a poor beggar with a who was both of them bitten in different  by a big maſtiff dog; they perſuaded me to turn, I ſaid that I ſhould firſt ſee him: ſo up I  to the ſide of a hedge, and cuts a long  full of prickles, which I carried in my left hand  my ſturdy ſtaff in the right; and as I came  the houſe, Mr. Youffer came roaring upon me  like a lion, he being a tyke of ſuch a monſtrous  frighted me ſo that I ran back; but he purſued  ſo hard, I was forced to face about, and  the briar to him, which he gripped in his