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 off hunger—I failed in my very attempt to become a beggar. For carce had I aumed that character, when the police in Leignitz took me under its wing, and, under the officious pretext of providing for me, forced me to an occupation that went againt my heart. With ome hazard and difficulty I ecaped from this rigid juridiction, which takes upon it to keep the whole world in pupilage; for my rule has at all times been, Never get into a crape with the police. I therefore avoided cities, and roved about the country, as a citizen of the world at large. It happened that the Countes paed through the very hamlet where I had taken up my abode; omewhat about the coach was broken, and mut be mended before the company could proceed: I joined the idle crowd, whom curioity collected to gape at the trange gentry, and formed an acquaintance with the heepih ervant, who, in the implicity of his heart, en- ‘truted