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18 and I paid nothing but ſixpence to the boy for dreſſing my horſe.-Blood and wounds ! ſaid the old fellow : then I'll go there this night-Ay, days George, do ; and mind this, When they aſk you what you will have for yourſelf and your horſe, anſwer nothing but What you will, Sir – George ſmil'd within himſelf, to think how be had got the one extortioner to take amends of the other --So this innkeeper ſet off on his jour- ney, and rode ſo late that night, that he might reach the cheap inn, that most of the people were gone to bed before he arrived. As ſoon as he cifmounted from his horſe, the boy enquired at him, What ſhall I give your horſe, Mater? To which he anſwered, What you will, boy.-The boy hearing this, runs away, (leaving him and his horſe to ſtand at the door) up ſtairs to his maſer's room, crying, Maſter, maſter, What ye will is come again ! O, the rogue, cries he, where is he? I'll cane him, I'!! what you will hım, by and by !--And to him he runs with his care, licks and kicks him until he was fearce able to mount his horſe, and would give him no entertainment there; which cauſed him to ride the whole of a cold winter night, after he had got his bones all beat and bruiſed.--So the one purſued the other as a murderer; and his defence was, That he was a cheat, and a ſooner of his houſe, until the truth was found out.

6. About this time the French king rent, and demanded from the king of England; three men of different qualities. The firſt was to be a mighty frog man; the ſecond, a very wiſe man;