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 how he had been ſerved at the fair; but calling for the reckoning, and telling the company that he was robbed too, it was comical to ſee how the countryman laughed. Zooks ſir, (ſays he) let us make our eſcape from this roguiſh place, for I am afraid that they will ſteal our ſmall guts to make fiddle ſtrings.

HE Gentleman lining his pockets a ſecond time with gold, went next day to the Exchange, and notwithſtanding all the care he took, he was robbed again. But Swalpo being not an ordinary rogue, and having ſomething of a generous principle in him, would not take all, but always left him ſome little money. The knight wondered how it was poſſible for the wit of man to rob one that had been ſo well forwarned as he was. At laſt, looking haſtily about, he perceived Swalpo ſtanding beſide him, and remembering that he had ſeen him near him ſeveral times before, he had a ſtrong ſuſpicion he was the man, and coming to him, took hold of his buttons, and told him that he had good ground to think that he was the man that robbed him ſeveral times; but being a Gentleman of a great eſtate, his loſs did not much trouble him; and if he would be ſo