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( 18 ) be great acquaintance:-So they went both into the ſtable, to ſee their horses drest.- Jack asks the gentleman's ſervant, which way they rode in the morning? He told him, toward London: My master, ſays Jack, rides that way too, I think. Now Jack having as much as he desired, went to ſee what his master wanted.-Hynd desired his man to get his slippers ready, and pulled off his boots; which being done, be takes leave of the gentleman, and goes to his bed-chamber, where Jack told him what road the gentleman was going next day.- In the morning Hynd ſet off first, but the gentleman ſtay'd breakfast, and then ſet off: and riding by a wood, where Hynd and his man lay in ambush for him, Hynd rode out to the gentleman, and with his carte flaps him o'er the pate, ſaying, Have I nothing to do but to wait upon you, Sir? Jack takes off the portmantle, ſaying, 'Tis very heavy, master.-Sir, ſaid Hynd to the gentleman, you are ill-beloved in the country, that you cannot get gold for your ſilver.-Jack rode back to the gentleman's ſervant, and ſtricks him over the pate; faying, You rogue, must I ſpoil my horse, carrying your portmantle, must I, must I,