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22 could and run off. This he did, but the miser told him he was not such a fool as to follow him, for he knew he designed to play the fool to have him fined again. By these means the poor fellow was enriched, and afterwards lived honestly.

George being at dinner one day, where the broth was exceeding hot, burnt his mouth, at the same time letting a loud fart; it is very good for you, says George that you made your escape, for I should have burnt you alive had you staid.

Two drunken fellows fell abeating one another on the streets of London, which caused a great crowd of people to throng together to see what it was; a tailor being at work in a garret, about three or four stories high, and hearing a noise in the street, looked over the window, but could not well see them; so he began to stretch himself, making a long neek, until he fell down out of the window, and alighted upon an old man who was walking on the street; the poor tailor was more afraid than hurt, but the man he fell on died direetlydirectly [sic]. His son caused the tailor to be apprehended and tried. The jury could not bring it in as wilful murder, neither could they altogether free the taylor; so the jury gave it over to the judges, and the judges' to king. The king asked George's advieeadvice [sic] in the matter. Why, says George, I will give you my opinion in a minute; you must eausecause [sic] the tailor to stand on the street in the same place where the old gentleman was when killed by the tailor, then let the gentlemans son, the tailor's adversary, go to the window from whenewhence [sic] the tailor fell, and jump down and so kill the tailor as he did his father, for I eancan [sic] make no more of it; you see it was a great mereymercy [sic] for the tailor that he had the old gentleman beneath him, else he had been killed on the spot, and that it was the old gentlemans lot or misfortune to die there. The tailor's adversary