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 THE MERRY TALES OF GOTHAM

run to the market alone ? lll now ſend one after another. Then laying his wallet down, taking out the cheeſes he tumbled them down the hill one after another. Some ran into one buſh and ſome into another. However, he charged them to meet him in the market-place. The man went to the market to meet with the cheefes and ſtay'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 on 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. And to add to it, he never found nor heard of one of his cheeſes.

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A MAN of Gotham bought at Nottingham market a trevet or barn iron; and going home with it, his ſhoulders grew weary with the carriage. He ſat it down, and ſeeing it had 3 feet, ſaid. Whoreſon, thou haſt three feet and I but two, thou ſhalt bear me home, if thou wilt; ſo ſat himſelf down upon it. and ſaid to bear me as long as I have done thee for if thou doſt not, thou ſhalt ſtand ſtill for me. The man of Gotham ſeeing that his trevet would not move, ſtand ſtill ſaid he, in the Mayor's name, and follow me if thou wilt, and I can ſhow you the right way. When he went home, his wife aſked him where the trevet was ? He ſaid, it had three legs and