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3 world another day, bound him an apprentice to a sadler, one who fitted Poor Robin's humour to a hair; for the master  drink, he thought it should go hard f the man likewise did not also wet his  with it. It fortun'd one time his master had brewed a barrel of beer stronger ordinary, to the drinking of which, Poor Robin one night invites five or six  his comrades, who, before the next morning, drank it all up. Poor Robin to himself, draws the spiggot out,  throws a pail full of small beer and  or three pales full of water under the Tap, and by a wile gets a great sow into the cellar: so the next morning when his master arose all was quiet, and the sow vas blamed for what the boar pig had done.

CHAP. II.

Poor Robin's master had gotten a custom that the man did not at all like, which was, that after he had tippled all day sometimes till ten or eleven o'clock at night, the would theft come home and fall asleep in a chair; during which time his man