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( 9 ) will tell you how I was robbed to-day: durſt have ſworn that you was the man, but that I ſee your hair is fort, and his was long.-Sir, ſaid Hynd, would you know the horſe? Yes, very well, ſaid the gentleman.-To ſatisfy you, ſaid Hynd, you ſhall ſee mine.-So Hynd went to the ſtable, took out his horſe, and mounted him, and then aſked the gentleman if that was the horſe? He anſwered, I, I, that is the horſe. Then, ſaid Hynd, I cannot ſup with you this night, if you my horſe better than myſelf. So bids him good-night.

6. HYND being informed of a purchaſe, as he rode, eſpied fome gentlemen drinking at an ale-houſe on horſe-back, having ſent their ſervants before: Hynd paſſed by them, but riding at a good rate, he quickly overtook the gentlemen's ſervants, who rode but eaſily.-Hynd, by their port-mantles, ſaw there was money in them, and deſir'd them to deliver it, or they were all dead men.-They, not being uſed to fight, ſurrendered.-Hynd knowing that delays are dangerous, with his knife he cut open their port-mantles, and took out the money: and tying the bags together, laid them ba-