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 her a six and thirty shilling piece: On the next morning he mounted his horse, without asking a bill or what was to pay; but sir, said the landlord, you forgot to pay your reckoning: well minded sir, I want my change, the maid was called in all hast yes, said she I got it but it was not for that, throws it down and off she goes: her mistress gave her the challenge she told her it was so, but she should be up with him. Twelve months after he coming past with his drove, puts up at the same inn as formerly: The girl then goes to a neighbour woman, who had a young child about three months old, lays it on the table, saying sir the change of your six and thirty; and away she comes: the child cries and the bell's rung, the landlord was ready enough to answer. O sir, said the drover, call her back, for this will ruin my family and crack my credit: but sir, said the girl, you thought nothing to ruin my character and my maiden-head: Peace, peace, said he my dear, here's one hundred and fifty pounds, and take away the child and trouble me no more: Well, said she, I will take it, and you'll make more of buying cows than maiden-heads; so away she came with the money, and returned the borrowed child to its own mother.

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