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22 maſter, you ſhall or loſe the wager ; take y another ſword with you. No, ſays the fellow river did ſwim with a ſword, nor any man di that ever I ſaw or beard of; I know not but the wild man will kill me in the deep water; I wou not, for the whole world, venture myſelf wil him and a ſword. The stain ſeeing his ſervant afraid to venture, or, if he did he would neve ſee him again alive; therefore he desired an- greement with the drover, who at firſt ſeem unwilling; but the captain putting it in his will the drover quit him for half the ſum. This carne to thro' George's advice.

8 George was met one day by three biſhop who paid him the following compliments; Sa the firſt, Good-morrow, father Abraham ; Sa the ſecond, Good-morrow, father It sac ; ſays third. Good-morrow, father Jacob. To whis he replied, I am neither father Abraham, father Iſaac, nor father Jacob: but I am Saul, the se of Kiſh, ſent out to ſeek my father's asses, as lo! I have found thme of them Which anſwer fully convinced the biſhops that they had a taken their man.

9 A poor Scotſman dined one day at a pub houſe in London upon eggs, and not having m- ney to pay, got credit till he ſhould return. Til man being lucky in trade, acquired vaſt riche and after ſome years happening to paſs that was called at the houſe where he was owing the di ner of eggs. Having called for the innkeeper, aſked him what be had to pay for the dinner