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 cloak and beaver, which he told them he had got into the bargain. Roger laughed as loud as a dozen of trumpets; but when Swalpo told then how he had performed the exploit, and related all the comical circumſtances attending it with a great deal of air and wit, there was as great a noiſe of laughter as ever was heard, and Roger, with his great baſe, made up the concert.

Y Lord and his company waited ſo long a time, that they were quite out of patience, the people of the houſe likewiſe wondering they ſat fo long without calling, ordered the fellow that ſhould have waited on the room, to go up ſtairs and force a trade. The fellow comes in and ſaid, Call here, call here, Gentlemen. Yes, ſays one of them, where is your fellow ſervant that waited on us? My fellow ſervant! ſays the other, he told me he was my Lord's ſervant, and that my Lord would be attended by none but himſelf, and I ſhould have good vails notwithſtanding. But, ſays my Lord, how can that be? I have but one Gentleman here of my own retinue: the reſt are with my lady; he that ſerved us came in with an apron, and is a ſervant of the houſe. Call up the landlord. The Vintner