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 night. O yes! Sir, says he, I mind of you pretty well and where were you last night? Last night, say George, I was in one of the finest inns, and the civiles landlord I ever had in my life; they brought all thing that I stood in need of unto me, without calling for them; and when I came off this morning, they charge me nothing, and I paid nothing but sixpence to the be for dressing my horse. Blood and wounds! said the old fellow, then I'll go there this night. Ay, say George, do; and mind this, when they ask you what you will have for yourself and your horse, answer nothing but “What you will, Sir." George smiling within himself, to think how he had got the on extortioner to take amends of the other. So this inn keeper set off on his journey, and rode so late that night that he might reach the cheap inn, that most the people were gone to bed before he arrived. A soon as he dismounted from his horse, the be enquired at him: what shall I give your horse, master To which he answered, "What you will," boy. Th boy hearing this, runs away (leaving him and his hors to stand at the door), up stairs to his master's room crying, master, master, "What you will” is come again O the rogue! cries he, where is he? I'll cane him-I what you will him by-and-by. "Then to him he run with his cane, licks and kicks him until he was scar'd able to mount his horse, and would give him entertainment there, which caused him to ride the whole of a cold winter's night, after he had got h bones all beat and bruised. So the one pursued the other as a murderer; and his defence was, that he w a cheat and a scorner of his house, until the truth w found out.

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