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5  Yes that I can, says the cobler. Come in, honest fellow, and sit thee down by me, and I will do it for thee straight; the cobler scraping his awls and old shoes to one side, to make room for the king to sit down by him. The king being hardly able to forbear

laughing at the kindness of the cobler, asked him if there was not a house hard by that sold a cup of ale, and the people up. Yes, said the Cobler, there is an inn over the way, where I believe the folks are up, for the carriers go from thence very early in the morning.