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 would serve a child ten years old, being so boiled in. The landlord persuaded them 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 laugh’d at me the night before when they lay down in the bed I was to have: but I laugh'd as much to see them trot away in the morning with their boiled brogues in their hands.

PART II.

E again came to a place near Surry-hill, where the ale was good, and very civil usage, and our drouth being very great, the more we drank, the better we loved it. 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 long 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,