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 the hard travelling, being so wett the last night, and they would go on well enough if they had travelled a mile or two Now the Highlandmen laught at me the night before, when they lay down in the bed I was to have; but I laught as much to see them all three trot away in the morning with their boil'd brogs in their hands.

E again came to a place near Sutry hill, where the ale was good, and very civil usage, and our draught 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, tho' all to come, went to the landlady to make up her loss of having the lime pish'd off her door-cheeks, and what we did not pish, we scyth'd thro' 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 wise and sober, behind the hand, 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 fourpence halfpeny, which we lovingly divided among us, but only three babees a piece and as Drouthy Tom's stock and mine was conjunct,