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 that without dipute or altercation; and though they were now a little the wore for the wear, they would in ome meaure make up my los. So I began to ound people’s pockets; and judging every pure I could feel to be one of my own manufacture, I condemned them for lawful prizes. Thus I had, moreover, an opportunity of recovering a good part of my own money, for, although it had been cried down, it paed as current as ever. My occupation throve for a time; I viited markets and fairs in divers capacities, ometimes as a cavalier, ometimes as a merchant, ometimes as a gipey. I had tudied my part o well, and my hand was become o nimble and certain, that I never made a fale gripe. This mode of life uited me exceedingly: I found myelf in good bread, and reolved to go on; but the caprice of my tars never uffered me to be what I wihed. One Frankfort fair I fell in ‘love