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 We found it more difficult to fit ourselves with shoes; but at last, having looked a great while before we could find any good enough for us, we found a shop very well stored, and of these we bought two pair for sixteen-pence.

We put them on immediately to our great comfort, for we had neither of us had any stockings to our legs that had any feet to them, for a long time: I found myself so refreshed with having a pair of warm stockings on, and a pair of dry shoes; things, I say, which I had not been acquainted with a great while, that I began to call to my mind my being a gentleman, and now I thought it began to come to pass; when we had thus fitted ourselves, I said. Hark ye, major Jack, you and I never had any money in our lives before, and we never had a good dinner in all our lives; what if we should go somewhere and get some victuals, I am very hungry?

So we will then, says the major, I am hungry too; so we went to a boiling cook's in Rosemary-Lane, where we treated ourselves nobly, and, as I thought with myself, we began to live like gentlemen, for we had three-penny worth of boiled beef, two-penny worth of pudding, a penny brick, (as they call it, or loaf) and a whole pint of strong beer, which was 7d. in all.

N. B. We had each of us a good mess of charming