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 CRUMP TWIN-BROTHERS. 17. poſed to me. But, ſtay, ſtay, I think I drank two glaſs of brandy upon further conſideration. Drink ſix if you will anſwered the Caliph, ſo you do but make an end of your ſtory. Hold you me there, fir, cried the porter, one cannot ſwallow down brandy at that rate neither; 'twill fly into the head: I am half drunk with those two only, and you would lave me here, after all that wine, tope down a bottle of brandy to boot: no, no, firs, I will do no ſuch thing, though the ſovereign commander of the faithful himſelf ſhould beg me upon his knees to do it. But let uſ return to our ſheep So then it was that the cutler woman, iscing me grow a little meriy, as cat may ſay, gave me to understand, that a little crooked man, who came to her houſe to buy ſome cutler's ware, had died ſuddenly in her ſhup, and that fearing. the ſhould be accuſed of having killed him, the would give the four, ſeguins ſhe had promiſed me, if I would throw him into the Tygris. I had not drank ſo much neither, but that I was reſolved to make ſure of the caſh. I demanded two of the ſequins in semnat; he e them me :- puteti tie ciuip into my fack, does as I was bid, and comes back to take the reſt of my money, when ſhe's ſhewſ me again the very ſame man. I leave you to imagine, ſir, how much I was ſurpriſed. I put him once more into my ſack, carried him a- gain to the bridge, and chooſing the moſt rapid part of the ſtream, toſſed him in ; and I was re- turning to the cutler's, when I again met the crooked road with a lanthorn in his hard, and making as if he was drunk. I grew weary of ſo much jeſting, took hold of him roughly, and puſh- ing him into my ſack in spite of his teeth, tied up the mouth of it, and flung him a third time into the Tygris with my ſack and all, imagining that would