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Rh so many times. "Toll!" said Rugg, "why do you demand toll? There is no toll to pay on the King's highway." "King's highway! do you not perceive that this is a turnpike?" "Turnpike! there are no turnpikes in Massachusetts." "That may be, but we have several in Virginia." "Virginia! do you pretend that I am in Virginia?

Rugg then appealed to me, and asked how far jt was to Boston. Said I, "Mr. Rugg, I perceive you are bewildered, and am sorry to see you so far from home; you are indeed in Virginia." "You know me then, sir, it seems, and you say I am in Virginia. Give me leave to tell you, sir, that you are the most impudent man alive, for I was never forty miles from Boston, and I never saw a Virginian in my life. This beats Delaware." "Your toll, sir, your toll!" "I will not pay you a penny," said Rugg, you are both of you highway robbers; there are no turnpikes in this country. Take toll on the King's highway! Robbers take toll on the King's highway." Then in a low tone he said, "here is evidently a conspiracy against me; alas! I shall never see Boston! The highways refuse