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 21 accordingly tlio mare was fetch’d; hen Rumbold striking her on the belly, e laid her mouth to his ear, through cus- m, just as the pidgeon did to Mahomet’s ; Why there now (quoth he) did I not tell ou, Sir that the hostler cheated her. Why (said the landlord) what does she say ? y, (quoth Rumbold) why she says that our hostler has thrown all the corn in a ng placed at one corner or the manger.” creupon, the landlord and his guest went to the stable, and searching the manger, and the bag of corn in one corner of it, r which he begged a thousand pardons, nd presently turned the hostler away, Not long after this adventure. Rumbold eeting six of the officers of his regiment on the road, put his mask on, and after a very little dispute, robbed them of 150 pounds ; the next day being upon a muse- known again by them, he was cal- ed out of his troop in order to be sent to. oal ; at which, saying, it would be his glo- ry for a single trooper to be hang’d “ for ‘ robbing half a dozen commissioned offi- cers; ” they for fear of being branded with owardice, let the matter drop without my prosecution.

The Guardian Snake. On a journey from Baroche to Duuboy,