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 The second time, I cannot so properly say, I stopp'dfor meeting a couple of Franciscans straiten'd more for time than myself, and not being able to get to the bottom of what I was about—I had turn'd back with them

The third, was an affair of trade with a gossip, for a hand basket of Provence figs for four sous; this would have been transacted at once; but for a case of conscience at the close of it; for when the figs were paid for, it turn'd out, that there were two dozen of eggs cover'd over with vine-leaves at the bottom of the basket—as I had no intention of of buying eggs—I made no sort of claim of them—as for the space they had occupied—what signified it? I had figs enow for my money