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 ſwore he had too much ſtuff in it, to venture me there; the goodwife ſaid, I ſhould not ly within the houſe, for I would be o'er near the laſſes bed then the lads ſwore I ſhould not go with them for I was a forjeſket-like fellow, and (wa kens whether I was honeſt or not) he may fill his wallet wi' our cloaths and gang his wa' or day-light. At laſt I was conducted out to the ſwine's-ſtye to ſleep with an old ſow, and ſeven pigs, and there I lay for two nights. Here now I began to reflect on the ſour fruits of drinking, and own all the miſery juſt that was come upon me. In the night the young pigs came gruzling about me very kindly, thinking I was ſome friend of their mother's come to viſit them; they gave me but little reſt always coming kiſſing me with their cold noſes, which cauſed me to beat them off with my ſtaff, which made them to make a terrible noiſe, ſo that their old mother came to argue the matter, running upon me with open mouth, but I gave her ſuch a rout over her long ſnout, that cauſed her to roar out murder, in her own language, that alarmed the ſervants where they lay, who came to ſee what was the matter, I told them their old ſow was going to ſwallow me up alive, bid them to go and bring her meat, which they did, and the brute became peaceable.

On the Sabbath morning I came into the houſe the goodman aſked me if I could ſhave any, yes, ſaid I, but never did on the Sabbath day; I fancy, ſaid he, you are ſome Weſtland Whig? Sir ſaid I, you may ſuppoſe me to be what you think proper to-day, but yeſternight you uſed me like a Tory, when you ſent me into a ſtye to ly in your ſows oxter, who is a fitter companion for a devil than any human creature; the moſt abominable brute upon