STUDY VII. 119 



*' fants on thefe coarfe milk beverages. When I 

 *' am travelling, and have got to a diftance from 

 *' great towns, on coming near a country village, 

 *' 1 fend on my fervants and carriages before j 

 ** and then my great delight is to go unattended, 

 *' and carefully muffled up in my cloak, into the 

 *' houfe of the firft peafant on the road, and de- 

 *^ vour an earthen pot-full of curdled milk, fluffed 

 *' full of brown bread. On my laft journey into 

 '' Livonia, on one of thefe occafions, I met with 

 " an adventure, which amufed me very highly. 

 " While I was breakfafting in this fliyle, in comes 

 *' a man fmging cheerly, and carrying a parcel on 

 " his flioulder. He fat down by me, and defired 

 " the landlord to give him a breakfaft fuch as 

 *' mine. I afked this traveller fo gay, whence he 

 '* came, and which way he was going. / am a 

 ''Jailor, fays he, and jitfi arrived from a voyage to 

 " India j / difembarked at Riga, and am on my re- 

 " iurn to Her land, zvhich is my native country , zvhere 

 *' / have not been thefe three years. I f jail fay 

 '' there till I have fpent thefe hundred crowns, pul- 

 *' ling out a leathern bag, and chinking the mo- 

 ** ney. T afked him feveral queftions about the 

 " countries he had feen, which he anfwered very 

 ** pertinently. But, faid 1 to him, zvhat will you 

 ** do, zvhen your hundred crowns are gone f — Oh ! 

 '* fays he, / will return to Holland, embark again 

 *' for India f earn another bag of crozvns, come back 



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