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 of a troop of hore, and was in great hopes of higher promotion. But being one day ent out a foraging, I followed my orders with uch crupulous punctuality, that I emptied not only granaries and barns, but the chets and coffers both of houes and churches that fell in my beat. Unluckily it was a friend’s country, o it occaioned a great outcryoutcry. [sic] Malicious people went o far as to call it a marauding expedition. I was brought to a court-martial, and entenced to run the gauntlet through a lane of fifteen hundred men. Having thus been dicharged from the honourable profeion in which I had hoped to make my fortune, I could now think of no reource but to return to my firt occupation. But I had neither money to purchae a tock of leather, nor inclination to work. As I uppoed myelf to have an undoubted property in my old goods, eeing I had old them below their value, I reolved to recover them, and Rh