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 againt his brethren of the craft; the traitor never reted till we were detected; and the trivial circumtance that we were not free of the trade, like mater Ephraim, brought us to be entenced to hard labour at the fortifications for life.

Here I lived ome years, after the rules of the order of the penitential brotherhood; till a good angel, who happened to cros the country in order to et all tout healthy prioners free, opened the prion-door to me. This good angel was no other than a recruiting officer, who called me to the nobler vocation of fighting for my overeign, intead of trundling wheel-barrows in his ervice. I was happy in the exchange: I reolved to become a oldier in earnet, was always foremot in the aault, and in cae of a retreat the nimblenes of my heels prevented the enemy from ever overtaking me. Fortune now eemed to mile: I was oon advanced to the head ‘of