Finding John fo bloody a minded man, I can't say I felt fo much regret at parting as I expected, though in every thing else but this fanguinary turn, he was really a good fort of a man; a better paymaster never exifted; an inftance of which he gave on parting with me. An ivory turner brought him a large parcel of nicknacks" I have added thefe to the "other bill," fays the man," and they "both together make eighteen pounds ten." "Very well," fays John, " I suppose you want money.” "No, mafter," fays the man," I have no right to afk it before my " time." "But," fays John, "will it do you any harm before your " time ?" "A great deal of good, "mafter," fays the man: upon which he gave him me. The man was going going to run home like lightning, for thirty fhillings in change, but John bid him not trouble himself to come on purpose, but leave it any time bufinefs brought him that way.. Here's a John for you! Is it not pitiful? wondrous pitiful? that fuch a heart as John's, fhould be tinctured with cruelty. Who would not laugh, if fuch a man there be? Who would not weep, if John himself is he? TH CHA P. XVI. Pull baker, pull devil. HE laft chapter left me in the hands of the ivory-turner, but you won't find me there; the ivory-turner paid me directly to a dealer in elephant's teeth; but you won't find me there neither: the elephant tooth-merchant paid me to a Jew, for old cloaths to fend to the coaft but you shan't find me there neither; no more pork-eating rogues will I give any account of the fons of circumcifion are fuch humdrum defigning dogs, that, except a young buck, now and then, whofe mother has been familiar with with a Christian, leaps over the pails, and breaks loose from them, the whole twelve twelve tribes, if you could recover the long-loft ten, would hardly furnish fuch a pen as mine with a decent chapter; too many of their roguish fornicating tricks are recorded in the Bible; but hang me if they shall contaminate a fingle page of my edifying books again.-Let them turn Christians ; there's no objection to their being rogues if they do; and then, when pork is not forbid, they won't eat a tenth part they do at prefent; by which means the Chrif tian poor, may come in for a rasher or a steak, because the price must fall. Where, in Gad's name, must we find you, fays beau Jemmy-boots, if you will appear in the hands of neither Jew nor Christian. Patience, my dainty friend, and you fhall find me ;-but not in the hands of either Chriftian, Jew, Pagan, or Turk. Blood and oons! fay a train-band captain, where can this fellow have hid himself?-Sure the devil has not got him! No, captain, fays I, the devil has not; but the devil's own cousin has : a fellow that would trample on the crucifix for a ftiver, would crucify a Jew for a doit, flay a Pagan alive for a fchilling, impale a Turk for a ducat, and burn all the world for a cag of pickled herrings:-in fhort, I am now fweating in the inner pocket of the fixth pair of breeches of a Dutchman; and although half of my countrymen |