out a farthing for eating a bit upon the 

 road, or even for the very turnpikes. 

 Thofe I was obliged to defraud, by 

 riding as hard as I could through them 

 all, not paying the leaft regard to the 

 men, who called out to flop me. The 

 want of refrefliment I bore as well as I 



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could. When I got to the Borough, I 

 took a coach and drove to Marlborough- 

 ftreet, where my friends had lived when 

 I left England ; but when I came there, 

 I found the houfe fliut up. Having 

 been abfent fo many years, and in all 

 that time never having heard a word 

 from home, I knew not who was dead, 

 or who was living, or where to go next ; 

 or even how to pay the coachman. I 

 recollected a linen-draper's fhop, not far 

 from thence, which our family had ufed. 

 I therefore drove there next, and making 

 myfelf known, they paid the coachman. 

 I then enquired after our family, and 



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