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 another. Some ran into one buſh, and ſome into another. However, he charged them to meet him in the marketplace. The man went to the market to meet with the cheeſes, and ſvtay'd till the market was almoſt over; then went and enquired at his neighbours, if they ſaw his cheeſes come to the market? Why, who ſhould bring them? ſaid one.— Marry themſelves, ſaid the fellow, they knew the way very well. A vengeance in them, they ran ſo faſt, I was afraid they would run beyond the market; I am perſuaded they are by this time almoſt as far as York. So he immediately rode to York, but was very much diſappointed, for he never found nor heard of one of his cheeſes.

"A Man of Gotham bought at Nottingham-market a trivot, or barn-iron; and in going home with it, his ſhoulders grew weary with the carriages upon which he ſet it down, and ſeeing it had three feet, ſaid, Whoreſon, thou haſt three feet, and I but two, thou ſhalt bear me homes; ſo let himſelf down upon it, and ſaid, Bear me as long as I have done thee, for if thou doſt not, thou