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 6 country, gave very liberally, insomuch that he resolved to be of good cheer, find- ing charity bestowed upon him faster than he expected; whereupon, arriving at a place called Bethnal Green, with the little money. good people had given him, he hired a small cottage for his wife and himself, and daily appeared publicly to beg alms. Hence he was called the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, and in a short time he found a thriving trade, in so much that his bed of straw was changed for one of down and all his other utensils for those of a better sort.