was the best of our society. Osborne went to the islands, where he gained considerable reputation as a barrister, and was getting money; but he died young. We had seriously engaged, that whoever died first should return, if possible, and pay a friendly visit to the survivor, to give him an account of the other world; but he has never fulfilled his engagement.

The governor appeared to be fond of my company, and frequently invited me to his house. He always spoke of his intention of settling me in business as a point that was decided. I was to take with me letters of recommendation to a number of his friends; and particularly a letter of credit, in order to obtain the necessary sum for the purchase of my press, types, and paper. He appointed various times for me to come for these letters, which would certainly be ready; and when I came, always put me off to another day.

These successive delays continued till the vessel, whose departure had been several times deferred, was on the point of setting sail; when I again went to Sir William's house to receive my letters, and take leave of him. I saw his secretary, Dr Bard, who told me, that the governor was extremely busy writing, but that he would be down at Newcastle before the vessel, and

that the letters would be delivered to me there.

Ralph, though he was married and had a child, determined to accompany me in this voyage. His object was supposed to be the establishing a correspondence with some mercantile houses, in order to sell goods by commission; but I afterwards learned that, having reason to be dissatisfied with the parents of his wife, he proposed to himself to leave her on their hands, and never return to America again.

FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND, 1724. Having taken leave of my friends, and interchanged promises of fidelity with Miss Read, I quitted Philadelphia. At Newcastle the vessel came to anchor. The governor was arrived, and I went to his lodgings. His secretary received me with great civility, told me, on the part of the governor, that he could not see me then, as he was engaged in affairs of the utmost importance, but that he would send the letters on board, and that he wished me, with all his heart, a good voyage and speedy return. I returned, somewhat astonished, to the ship, but still without entertaining the slightest suspicion.

Mr Hamilton, a celebrated barrister of Philadelphia, had taken a passage to England for himself and his son, and, in conjunction with Mr Denham, a Quaker, and Messrs Oniam and Russel, proprietors of a forge in Maryland, had agreed for the whole cabin, so that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew. Being unknown to every body in the ship, we were looked upon as of the common order of people but Mr Hamilton and his son (it was James, who was afterwards governor) left us at Newcastle, and returned to Philadelphia, where he was recalled at a very great expense to plead the cause of a vessel that had been seized: and just as we were about to sail, Colonel French came on board and showed me many civilities. The passengers upon this paid me more attention, and I was invited, together with my friend Ralph, to occupy the place in the cabin which the return of the Messrs Hamilton had made vacantan offer which we very readily accepted.

Having learned that the dispatches of the governor had been brought on board by Colonel French, I asked the captain for the letters that were to be entrusted to my care. He told me that they were all put together in the bag, which he could not open at present; but before we reached England, he would give me an opportunity of taking them out. I was satisfied with this answer, and we pursued our voyage.

The company in the cabin were all very sociable, and we were perfectly well off as to provisions, as we had the advantage of the whole of Mr Hamilton's, who had laid in a very plentiful stock. During the passage, Mr Denham contracted a friendship for me, which

ended only with his life: in other respects, the voyage was by no means an agreeable one, as we had much bad weather.

When we arrived in the Thames, which was in the month of December 1724, the captain was as good as his word, and allowed me to search in the bag for the governor's letters. I could not find a single one with my name written on it, as committed to my care; but I selected six or seven, which I judged from the direction to be those that were intended for me; particularly one to Mr Basket, the king's printer, and another to a stationer, who was the first person I called upon. I delivered him the letter as coming from Governor Keith. "I have no acquaintance," said he, "with any such person;" and opening the letter, "Oh, it is from Riddlesden!" he exclaimed: "I have lately discovered! him to be a very arrant knave, and wish to have nothing to do either with him or his letters." He instantly put the letter into my hand, turned upon his heel, and left me to serve some customers.

I was astonished at finding these letters were not from the governor. Reflecting, and putting circumstances together, I then began to doubt his sincerity. I rejoined my friend Denham, and related the whole affair to him. He let me at once into Keith's character; told me there was not the least probability of his having written a single letter-that no one who knew him ever placed any reliance on him-and laughed at my credu. lity in supposing that the governor would give me a let ter of credit, when he had no credit for himself. As I showed some uneasiness respecting what step I should take, he advised me to try to get employment in the house of some printer. "You may there," said he, "improve yourself in business, and you will be able to settle yourself the more advantageously when you return to America."

We knew already, as well as the stationer, attorney Riddlesden to be a knave. He had nearly ruined the father of Miss Read, by drawing him in to be his secu. rity. We learned from his letter, that he was secretly carrying on an intrigue, in concert with the governor, to the prejudice of Mr Hamilton, who, it was supposed, would by this time be in Europe. Denham, who was Hamilton's friend, was of opinion that he ought to be made acquainted with it; and, in reality, the instant he arrived in England, which was very soon after, I waited on him, and, as much from good will to him as from resentment against the governor, put the letter into his hands. He thanked me very sincerely, the information it contained being of consequence to him; and from that moment bestowed on me his friendship, which afterwards proved, on many occasions, serviceable to me.

But what are we to think of a governor who could play so scurvy a trick, and thus grossly deceive a poor young lad, wholly destitute of experience? It was a practice with him. Wishing to please every body, and having little to bestow, he was lavish of promises. He was, in other respects, sensible and judicious, a very tolerable writer, and a good governor for the people; though not so for the proprietaries, whose instructions he frequently disregarded. Many of our best laws were his work, and established during his administration.

Ralph and I were inseparable companions. We took a lodging together at three and sixpence a-week, which was as much as we could afford. He met with some relations in London, but they were poor, and not able to assist him. He now, for the first time, informed me of his intention to remain in England, and that he had no thoughts of ever returning to Philadelphia. He was totally without money-the little he had been able to raise having barely sufficed for his passage. I had still fifteen pistoles remaining; and to me he had from time to time recourse, while he tried to get employment.

At first, believing himself possessed of talents for the stage, he thought of turning actor; but Wilkes, to whom he applied, frankly advised him to renounce the idea, as it was impossible he should succeed. He next proposed to Roberts, a bookseller in Paternoster Row, to

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write a weekly paper in the manner of the Spectator, upon terms to which Roberts would not listen. Lastly, he endeavoured to procure employment as a copyist, and applied to the lawyers and stationers about the Temple, but he could find no vacancy.

As to myself, I immediately got engaged at Palmer's, at that time a noted printer in Bartholomew Close, with whom I continued nearly a year. I applied very assiduously to my work; but I expended with Ralph almost all that I earned. Plays, and other places of amusement, which we frequented together, having exhausted my pistoles, we lived after this from hand to mouth. He appeared to have entirely forgotten his wife and child, as I also, by degrees, forgot my engagements with Miss Read, to whom I never wrote more than one letter, and that merely to inform her that I was not likely to return soon. This was another grand error of my life, which I should be desirous of correcting were I to begin my career again.

I was employed at Palmer's on the second edition of Wollaston's Religion of Nature.* Some of his arguments appearing to me not to be well founded, I wrote a small metaphysical treatise, in which I animadverted on those passages. It was entitled a Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. I dedicated it to my friend Ralph, and printed a small number of copies. Palmer upon this treated me with more consideration, and regarded me as a young man of talents; though he seriously took me to task for the principles of my pamphlet, which he looked upon as abominable. The printing of this work was another error of my life.

While I lodged in Little Britain, I formed an acquaintance with a bookseller of the name of Wilcox, whose shop was next door to me. Circulating libraries were not then in use. He had an immense collection of books of all sorts. We agreed that, for a reasonable retribution, of which I have now forgotten the price, I should have free access to his library, and take what books I pleased, which I was to return when I had read them. I considered this agreement as a very great advantage; and I derived from it as much benefit as was in my power.

My pamphlet falling into the hands of a surgeon, of the name of Lyons, author of a book entitled Infallibility of Human Judgment, was the occasion of a considerable intimacy between us. He expressed great esteem for me, came frequently to see me, in order to converse upon metaphysical subjects, and introduced me to Dr Mandeville, author of the Fable of the Bees, who had instituted a club at a tavern in Cheapside, of which he was the soul: he was a facetious and very amusing character. He also introduced me, at Batson's coffee-house, to Dr Pemberton, who promised to give me an opportunity of seeing Sir Isaac Newton, which I very ardently desired; but he never kept his word.

I had brought some curiosities with me from America; the principal of which was a purse made of the asbestos, which fire only purifies. Sir Hans Sloane hearing of it, called upon me, and invited me to his house in Bloomsbury Square, where, after showing me every thing that was curious, he prevailed on me to add this piece to his collection; for which he paid me very handsomely.+

* [William Wollaston (born 1659, died 1724), an English writer on ethics and theology, and chiefly known among the philosophers of the eighteenth century for the work above alluded to, but which is now little heard of.]

t [Sir Hans Sloane was a distinguished naturalist, who followed the profession of a physician in London. He founded the British Museum, and in 1727 was President of the Royal Society The manner in which Franklin made himself known to this gentleman, appears by the following letter, which we copy from the Gentleman's Magazine for 1780:-"Mr. FRANKLIN to Sir HANS SLOANE. June 2, 1725. SIR,-Having lately been in the northern parts of America, I have brought from thence a purse made of the stone asbestos, a piece of this stone, and a piece of wood, the pithy part of which is of the same nature, and called by the inhabitants salamander cotton. As you are noted to be a lover of curiosities, I have informed you of these; and if you!

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There lodged in the same house with us a young woman, a milliner, who had a shop by the side of the Exchange. Lively and sensible, and having received an education somewhat above her rank, her conversa tion was very agreeable. Ralph read plays to her every evening. They became intimate. She took another lodging, and he followed her. They lived for some time together; but Ralph being without employment, she having a child, and the profits of her business not sufficing for the maintenance of three, he resolved to quit London, and try a country school. This was a plan in which he thought himself likely to succeed, as he wrote a fine hand, and was versed in arithmetic and accounts. But considering the office as beneath him, and expecting some day to make a better figure in the world, when he should be ashamed of its being knowit that he had exercised a profession so little honourable, he changed his name, and did me the honour of assuming mine. He wrote to me soon after his departure, informing me that he was settled at a small village in Berkshire. In his letter, he recommended Mrs T*** the milliner, to my care, and requested an answer, directed to Mr Franklin, schoolmaster, at N***.

He continued to write to me frequently, sending me large fragments of an epic poem he was composing, and which he requested me to criticise and correct. I did so, but not without endeavouring to prevail on him to renounce this pursuit. Young had just published one of his Satires. I copied and sent him a great part of it; in which the author demonstrates the folly of cultivating the muses, from the hope, by their instrumentality, of rising in the world. It was all to no purpose: paper after paper of his poem continued to arrive every post.

Meanwhile Mrs T*** having lost, on his account, both her friends and business, was frequently in distress. In this dilemma she had recourse to me, and, to extricate her from her difficulties, I lent her all the money I could spare. I felt a little too much fondness for her. Having at that time no ties of religion, and taking advantage of her necessitous situation, I attempted liberties (another error of my life), which she repelled with becoming indignation. She informed Ralph of my conduct, and the affair occasioned a breach between us. When he returned to London, he gave me to understand that he considered all the obligations he owed me as annihilated by this proceeding; whence I concluded that I was never to expect the payment of what money I had lent him, or advanced on his account. I was the less afflicted at this, as he was wholly unable to pay me; and as, by losing his friendship, I was relieved at the same time from a very heavy burden.

I now began to think of laying by some money. The printing-house of Watts, near Lincoln's-inn Fields, being a still more considerable one than that in which I worked, it was probable I might find it more advantageous to be employed there. I offered myself, and was accepted; and in this house I continued during the remainder of my stay in London.

On my entrance, I worked at first as a pressman, conceiving I had need of bodily exercise, to which I had been accustomed in America, where the printers work alternately as compositors and at the press. I drank nothing but water. The other workmen, to the number of about fifty, were great drinkers of beer. I carried occasionally a large form of letters in each hand, up and down stairs, while the rest employed both hands to carry one. They were surprised to see, by this and many other examples, that the "American aquatic," as they used to call me, was stronger than those who drank porter. The beer-boy had sufficient employment during the whole day in serving that house alone.* have any inclination to purchase them or see them, let me know your pleasure by a line directed to me at the Golden Fan in Little Britain, and I will wait upon you with them. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. P.S.-I expect to be out of town in two or three days, and therefore beg an immediate answer."]

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My fellow-pressman drank every day a pint of beer before breakfast, a pint with bread and cheese for breakfast, one between breakfast and dinner, one at dinner, one again about six o'clock in the afternoon, and another after he had finished his day's work. This custom appeared to me abominable; but he had need, he said, of all this beer, in order to acquire strength to work.

who had a daughter, a servant, and a shop-boy ; but the latter slept out of the house. After sending to the people with whom I lodged in Little Britain, to inquire into my character, she agreed to take me in at the same price, three-and-sixpence a-week; contenting herself, she said, with so little, because of the security she should derive, as they were all women, from having a man lodger in the house.

I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength She was a woman rather advanced in life, the daughfurnished by the beer, could only be in proportion to ter of a clergyman. She had been educated a Protes the solid part of the barley dissolved in the water of tant; but her husband, whose memory she highly which the beer was composed-that there was a larger revered, had converted her to the Catholic religion. portion of flour in a penny loaf; and that consequently She had lived in habits of intimacy with persons of if he ate this loaf, and drank a pint of water with it, he distinction, of whom she knew various anecdotes as far would derive more strength from it than from a pint back as the time of Charles II. Being subject to fits of beer. This reasoning, however, did not prevent him of the gout, which often confined her to her room, she from drinking his accustomed quantity of beer, and was sometimes disposed to see company. Her's was so paying every Saturday night a score of four or five amusing to me, that I was glad to pass the evening shillings for this cursed beverage-an expense from with her as often as she desired it. Our supper conwhich I was wholly exempt. Thus do these poor devils sisted only of half an anchovy a-piece, upon a slice of continue all their lives in a state of voluntary wretched-bread and butter, with half a pint of ale between us. ness and poverty. But the entertainment was in her conversation.

At the end of a few weeks, Watts having occasion for me above stairs as a compositor, I quitted the press. The compositors demanded of me garnish-money afresh. This I considered as an imposition, having already paid below. The master was of the same opinion, and desired me not to comply. I thus remained two or three weeks out of the fraternity. I was consequently looked upon as excommunicated; and whenever I was absent, no little trick that malice could suggest was left unpractised upon me. I found my letters mixed, my pages transposed, my matter broken, &c. &c., all which was attributed to the spirit that haunted the chapel,* and tormented those that were not regularly admitted. I was at last obliged to submit to pay, notwithstanding the protection of the master; convinced of the folly of not keeping up a good understanding with those among whom we are destined to live.

The early hours I kept, and the little trouble I occasioned in the family, made her loath to part with me; and when I mentioned another lodging I had found, nearer the printing-house, at two shillings a-week, which fell in with my plan of saving, she persuaded me to give it up, making herself an abatement of two shillings; and thus I continued to lodge with her, during the remainder of my abode in London, at eighteen-pence aweek.

In a garret of the house, there lived, in a most retired manner, a lady seventy years of age, of whom I received the following account from my landlady:She was a Roman Catholic. In her early years she had been sent to the continent, and entered a convent with the design of becoming a nun: but the climate not agreeing with her constitution, she was obliged to return to England, where, as there were no monasteries, she made a vow to lead a monastic life, in as rigid a manner as circumstances would permit. She accordingly disposed of all her property to be applied to charitable uses, reserving to herself only twelve pounds a-year: and of this small pittance she gave a part to the poor, living on water gruel, and never making use of fire but to boil it. She had lived in this garret a great many years, without paying rent to the successive Catholic inhabitants that had kept the house; who indeed considered her abode with them as a blessing. A priest came every day to confess her. "I have asked her," said my landlady, "how, living as she did, she could find so much employment for a confessor ?" To which she answered, "that it was impossible to avoid vain thoughts."

After this I lived in the utmost harmony with my fellow-labourers, and soon acquired considerable influence among them. I proposed some alterations in the laws of the chapel, which I carried without opposition. My example prevailed with several of them to renounce their abominable practice of bread and cheese with beer; and they procured, like me, from a neighbouring house, a good basin of warm gruel, in which was a small slice of butter, with toasted bread and nutmeg. This was a much better breakfast, which did not cost more than a pint of beer, namely, three-halfpence, and at the same time preserved the head clearer. Those who continued to gorge themselves with beer, often lost their credit with the publican, from neglecting to pay their score. They had then recourse to me, to become security for them; "their light," as they used to call it, "being I was once permitted to visit her. She was cheerout." I attended at the pay-table every Saturday even-ful and polite, and her conversation agreeable. Her ing, to take up the little sum which I had made myself apartment was neat; but the whole furniture consisted answerable for, and which sometimes amounted to of a mattress, a table, on which were a crucifix and a nearly thirty shillings a-week. book, and a chair which she gave me to sit on, and over the mantel-piece a picture of St Veronica displaying her handkerchief, on which was seen the miraculous impression of the face of Christ, which she explained to me with great gravity. Her countenance was pale, but she had never experienced sickness; and I may adduce her as another proof how little is sufficient to maintain life and health.

This circumstance, added to my reputation of being a tolerably good" gabber," or, in other words, skilful in the art of burlesque, kept up my importance in the chapel. I had besides recommended myself to the esteem of my master by my assiduous application to business, never observing Saint Monday. My extraordinary quickness in composing always procured me such work as was most urgent, and which is commonly best paid; and thus my time passed away in a very pleasant manner.

My lodging in Little Britain being too far from the printing-house, I took another in Duke Street, opposite the Roman Catholic Chapel. It was at the back of an Italian warehouse. The house was kept by a widow, pewter pots, fresh from the butt, from public houses. The supplies are brought by boys, who, for convenience, carry the pots

in a small frame of shelves by the hand.]

*[According to a very old custom, operative printers in an office form an organised body, which they call a chapel-a name probably originating in the circumstance of printing being at first conducted in religious houses.]

At the printing-house I contracted an intimacy with a sensible young man of the name of Wygate, who, as his parents were in good circumstances, had received a better education than is common among printers. He was a tolerable Latin scholar, spoke French fluently, and was fond of reading. taught him as well as a friend of his to swim, by taking them twice only into the assistance. We one day made a party to go by water river; after which they stood in need of no farther to Chelsea, in order to see the Hospital, and Don Soltero's curiosities. On our return, at the request of the company, whose curiosity Wygate had excited, I undressed myself, and leaped into the river. Í swam from near Chelsea the whole way to Blackfriars' Bridge,

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I have forgotten what was Mr Denham's disorder; | ever was disposed to serve in America. He instantly but it was a tedious one, and he at last sunk under it. repaired to the house of rendezvous, enlisted himself, He left me a smail legacy in his will, as a testimony of was put on board a ship, and conveyed to America, his friendship; and I was once more abandoned to my- without ever writing a line to inform his parents what self in the wide world, the warehouse being confided to was become of him. His mental vivacity, and good the care of the testamentary executor, who dismissed natural disposition, made him an excellent companion; but he was indolent, thoughtless, and to the last degree imprudent.

My brother-in-law, Holmes, who happened to be at Philadelphia, advised me to return to my former profession; and Keimer offered me a very considerable salary if I would undertake the management of his printing-office, that he might devote himself entirely to the superintendence of his shop. His wife and relations in London had given me a bad character of him; and I was loath, for the present, to have any concern with him. I endeavoured to get employment as a clerk to a merchant; but not readily finding a situation, I was induced to accept Keimer's proposal.

The following were the persons I found in his printing-house :

John, the Irishman, soon ran away. I began to live very agreeably with the rest. They respected me, and the more so as they found Keimer incapable of instructing them, and as they learned something from me every day. We never worked on a Saturday, it being Keimer's Sabbath; so that I had two days a-week for reading.

I increased my acquaintance with persons of knowledge and information in the town. Keimer himself treated me with great civility and apparent esteem; and I had nothing to give me uneasiness but my debt to Vernon, which I was unable to pay, my savings as yet being very little. He had the goodness, however, not to ask me for the money.

ugh Meredith, a Pennsylvanian, about thirty-five years of age. He had been brought up to husbandry, Our press was frequently in want of the necessary was honest, sensible, had some experience, and was quantity of letter, and there was no such trade as that fond of reading; but too much addicted to drinking. of letter-founder in America. I had seen the practice Stephen Potts, a young rustic, just broke from school, of this art at the house of James, in London; but had and of rustic education, with endowments rather above at the time paid it very little attention. I, however, the common order, and a competent portion of under-contrived to fabricate a mould. I made use of such standing and gaiety; but a little idle. Keimer had letters as we had for punches, founded new letters cí engaged these two at very low wages, which he had lead in matrices of clay, and thus supplied, in a tolepromised to raise every three months a shilling a-week, rable manner, the wants that were most pressing. provided their improvement in the typographic art I also, upon occasion, engraved various ornaments, should merit it. This future increase of wages was made ink, gave an eye to the shop; in short, I was in the bait he had made use of to ensnare them. Mere- every respect the factotum. But useful as I made mydith was to work at the press, and Potts to bind books, self, I perceived that my services became every day which he had engaged to teach them, though he under- of less importance, in proportion as the other men imstood neither himself. proved; and when Keimer paid me my second quarter's wages, he gave me to understand that they were too heavy, and that he thought I ought to make an abatement. He became by degrees less civil, and assumed more the tone of master. He frequently found fault, was difficult to please, and seemed always on the point of coming to an open quarrel with me.

John Savage, an Irishman, who had been brought up to no trade, and whose service, for a period of four years, Keimer had purchased of the captain of a ship. He was also to be a pressman.

George Webb, an Oxford scholar, whose time he had in like manner bought for four years, intending him for a compositor. I shall speak more of him presently. Lastly, David Harry, a country lad, who was apprenticed to him.

I continued, however, to bear it patiently, conceiving that his ill-humour was partly occasioned by the de rangement and embarrassment of his affairs. At last a I soon perceived that Keimer's intention, in engag-slight incident broke our connexion. Hearing a noise ing me at a price so much above what he was accus- in the neighbourhood, I put my head out at the wintomed to give, was, that I might form all these raw dow to see what was the matter. Keimer being in journeymen and apprentices, who scarcely cost him the street, observed me, and, in a loud and angry tone, any thing, and who, being indentured, would, as soon told me to mind my work: adding some reproachas they should be sufficiently instructed, enable him to ful words, which piqued me the more, as they were do without me. I nevertheless adhered to my agree- uttered in the street; and the neighbours, whom the ment. I put the office in order-which was in the ut- same noise had attracted to the windows, were witnesses most confusion-and brought his people by degrees to of the manner in which I was treated. He immedipay attention to their work, and to execute it in a more ately came up to the printing-room, and continued to masterly style. exclaim against me. The quarrel became warm on It was singular to see an Oxford scholar in the con- both sides, and he gave me notice to quit him at the dition of a purchased servant. He was not more than expiration of three months, as had been agreed upon | eighteen years of age; and the following are the parti-between us; regretting that he was obliged to give me culars he gave me of himself:-Born at Gloucester, so long a term. I told him that his regret was superhe had been educated at a grammar-school, and had fluous, as I was ready to quit him instantly; and I took distinguished himself among the scholars by his superior my hat and came out of the house, begging Meredith style of acting, when they represented dramatic per- to take care of some things which I left, and bring them formances. He was member of a literary club in the to my lodgings. town; and some pieces of his composition, in prose as Meredith came to me in the evening. We talked for well as in verse, had been inserted in the Gloucester some time upon the quarrel that had taken place. papers. From hence he was sent to Oxford, where he had conceived a great veneration for me, and was sorry remained about a year; but he was not contented, and I should quit the house while he remained in it. He wished above all things to see London, and become an dissuaded me from returning to my native country, as actor. At length, having received fifteen guineas to I began to think of doing. He reminded me that pay his quarter's board, he decamped with the money Keimer owed me more than he possessed; that his crefrom Oxford, hid his gown in a hedge, and travelled to ditors began to be alarmed; that he kept his shop in a London. There, having no friend to direct him, he fell wretched state, often selling things at prime cost for into bad company, soon squandered his fifteen guineas, the sake of ready money, and continually giving credit could find no way of being introduced to the actors, without keeping any accounts; that of consequence he became contemptible, pawned his clothes, and was in must very soon fail, which would occasion a vacancy want of bread. As he was walking along the streets, from which I might derive advantage. I objected my almost famished with hunger, and not knowing what want of money: upon which he informed me that his to do, a recruiting bill was put into his hand, which father had a very high opinion of me, and, from a conoffered an immediate treat and bounty-money to who-versation that had passed between them, he was sure

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