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( 14 ) his company.-After breakfaſt, they rode together: Hynd aſked the Parſon, if he could gueſs what trade he was of? No, ſaid the Parfon. Then, ſaid Hynd, I am a cutter; for I muſt cut the collar of your doublet off, before I ſhall come at your money,-Having ſo done, he left the Parson forty pounds lighter than he found him.

9. Hynd riding through a little town in Warwickſhire, ſaw a tumult in the ſtreet. So he rode up to them, to know the occaſion. One told him, that an honeſt Inn-keeper was undone, if he did not get ſpeedy relief. Hynd goes to the man, and told him, if he could give him ſecurity, she would money for him.-The poor man being very much overjoyed at this unlook'd-for news, told him that he would make over all that he had for his ſecurity.So Hynd got the old Usurer, who was purſuing him, and the two Bailiffs, into the houſe, and deſired the bond; paid the Usurer all he demanded, giving the Bailiffs their fees, and cancelled the bond. Hynd fent for an Attorney to make over the Inn-keeper's goods to himſelf: Which being done, they parted. Hynd being not unmindful to enquire the