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 plentifully, that the gentleman's ſtock failed him, and the beggar not hearing it chink, fell into laughter, and ſaid, “ How, ſir, is your money done ſo ſoon? I thought at firſt you had more words than money; pray, for your credit's ſake, try your friends, for I have three or four cat ſkins, with golden puddings in their bellies yet." Indeed, ſaid the gentleman, I am content to own you have out-done me, and think you have the philoſopher's ſtone, or keep a familar to bring it to you from the golden mountain: but ſeeing the world goes ſo well with you I ſhall no further go about to perſuade my ſon in law, but beg pardon for what I have done. O do you ſo, ſaid the beggar, then may things be better perhaps than you expect. Then turning to the knight, gather up, ſaid he the looſe corn I have ſcattered, and here's a cat's ſkin filled which will make up the ſum of three thouſand pounds beſides a hundred pounds more to buy her a wedding gown; take this as her preſent portion, and as you behave yourſelf, expect more hereafter. I give her to you, and with her a bleſſing. Go to church, and be married in God's name,