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Rh rupees were the currency of Calcutta, it would be his interet to Change them for thoe of Patna, whither he was going, as he would. benefit conﬁderably by the exchange; and that he could oblige him with the coin of that city. The poor oldier, thankfully accepting the offer, counted down his fifty good? pieces of; ilver, for fifty glittering bae ones of the harper, and parting him with a mutual hake of the hands, proceeded on his journey. Not until his arrival at Muxadabad, where he was about a purchaing ome neceary, did he dicover the hining pecimens of his friend's ingenuity, and making ome very dimal, though pertinent reflections on the occaion, with a countenance