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4 must not go to bed, but wait until his master awakened. Poor Robin to break him of this evil custom, one night when his master came home soundly fuddled, and falling asleep in his chair as usual; so he made a great fire, and then drew his master's legs so near thereto, that his toes touched some of the coals; which being done, he sits him down in the other corner, to observe the sequel He had not sat long, till his master's shoes began to fry: whereupon he suddenly awakes, and jumps about, as if he had been mad! the man all the while counterfeits himself asleep, and seem'd not to awake for a good space. At last, seeming much to pity his master's misfortune, they went to bed.But never after that, would his master sit up to sleep in his chair.

CHAP. III.

In the same town lived a rich Miser, who had wealth enough to have been treasurer of the town, and wisdom answerable to a beadle of a parish: This man, fuller of faith than good works, would neither feast the poor nor relieve their wants; nor hold brotherly unity with any. Poor Robin