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 midden-dub, where both his head and shoulders went dirt and water; but before I could recover my elwand or arms, the wicked wife and her twa ſons were  me in all quarters, the wife hung in my hair, while  twa ſons boxed me about and before, and  thus overpowered by numbers, I was fairly beat by  wicked webſter, his 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 boy, who both of them bitten in different places by a big  dog; they perſuaded me to turn back, but I ſaid that  ſhould firſt ſee him: ſo up I goes to the ſide of a, and cut a long bramble full of prickles, which I  in my left hand with a ſturdy ſtaff in the right; and  came near the houſe, Mr. Youffer came roaring upon  like a lion, he being a tyke of ſuch a monſtrous ſize, frighted me ſo that I ran back; but he purſued me ſo hard,  was forced to face about, and holding out the briar  him, which he griped in his mouth, and then I  it through his teeth, and gave him a hearty blow  his ear with my rung, which made him go tumbling  his maſter's door, and when he got up, he  not fight any, his mouth being ſo full of prickles by  biting of the briar, which cauſed him go about , and rubbing his mouth with his foot: the people  the houſe came running out to ſee what was the , I then ſhewed them the briar, and telling them their  came running to bite me, but my briar had bitten him; they then called him in, and fell to picking the pricks out of his tongue.

On the Saturday night hereafter, I was like to be off for quarters, I travelled until many people  gone to bed; but at laſt I came to a farmer's houſe, aſked what they would buy, nameing twenty fine things which I never had, and then aſked for quarters, which they