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( 11 ) the ſame manner if not worſe. Now George came to the inn where he refreſhed himſelf the day before; ſo when he alighted, the boy aſked him, Sir, what ſhall I give your horſe? What you will boy, ſays George. No ſooner had he gone into his room, but the drawer aſked him, What will you have to drink, Sir? What you will, ſays George. The maſter of the inn came into his room before ſupper, aſked him. What will you have for ſupper, Sir? What you will. Landlord, ſays George. Now, after ſupper being ended and a hearty bowl to put all over, George went to bed, and got up pretty early in the morning, called for the boy to make ready his horſe in all haſte, for his deſigned to mount him, and go directly; ſo in a ſhort time went into the ſtable where the boy was calling for his horſe, and mounted him with all the ſpeed he could, giving the boy a piece of money, ſaying, Here my boy, this is for your taking care of my horſe; I have paid for all I called in the houſe; and off he goes. Now about mid-day he alighted again, at an inn to refreſh himſelf and his horſe, and there he chanced to be in company with his other landlord, where he was the night before, and charged him with the double reckoningː ſo George addreſſed himſelf to him after this manner. Sir, ſays George, I do believe I was in your houſe yeſternight. O yes, Sir I mind of you very well; and where was you laſt night? Laſt night! ſays George, I was in one of the finneſt inns, and the civileſt landlord, ever I had in my life; they brought all things I ſtood in need of unto me, without calfing for it, and when I came off this morning, they charged me nothing, and I paid nothing but ſixpence to the boy for dreſſing my horſe. Blood and wounds ſays the old fellow, then I'll go there this sight. Ay, ſays George, do; and mind this, when they aſk you, what will you have for yourſelf and horſe? anſwer nothing but what you will, Sir. Now George ſmiled within himſelf, to think how he got the one extortioner to take amends of the other. So the foreſaid inn-keeper rode that night until many of the pple of the inn were gone to bed before he came to. No ſooner had he alighted from his horſe, then the boy aſked him, what ſhall I give to your horſe, maſter? To which he anſwered, what you will buy. The boy hearing this, runs away (leaving him and his horſe to ſtand at the door,) up ſtairs to his maſter's room, crying maſter, maſter, what you will in come again. O the rogue, cries he, where is he? I'll cane him; I'll what you will him bye and bye, and to im he runs with his cane, licks him and kicks him, until e was ſcarce able to mount his horſe, and would give him o encouragement there, which cauſed him to ride the ngth of a whole long cold winter night, after he had got