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Rh person, whose livelihood depends on the public, to be very tender how they offend them ——The following story is a true instance of a merry revenge upon one of there penurians, and the affair happened as follows

Two merchants agreed, one Sunday in the spring, to take a ride ten or twelve miles out of town, and to dine at some ordinary in the country. Accordingly they pitched upon some village in Essex, where there was a twelve-penny ordinary every Sunday, but it happened, that after they were come to the house, and had acquainted the landlord that they intended to dine with him, that one of them was taken ill of a sudden, so that when dinner was brought upon the table, the gentleman could not bear the it; but soon after growing something better he ordered some wine to be made hot for him, with an egg beat up in it, and which soon recovered him. An hour or two after this, the gentleman being again pretty well,  and drank a bowl of hot punch  and at last called for the : the landlord, out of his