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a farmer's corn field on a Sabbath day and plucking the 

 ears of corn, they being "a Hungary," he therefore thought 

 it no harm to take a little cider on the Sabbath, himself 

 being " a dry." At the time he and myself were shop- 

 mates he worked in a little back shop, I wrought for a 

 Mr. Cleland an Ironmonger in Maiden Lane, al the 

 blacksmith's work and doctoring horses ; at that time 

 Grant bought a monkey ; after a while he thought the 

 monkey's tail too long, so the tail was cut off, and the 

 animal died on account of the barbarous trep'tnent: 

 Grant had a coffin made for him, & Jacko laid in slate 

 in the shop, a great number of boys came daily to see 

 Jacko; the time was appointed for the funeral ; t'u^boys 

 attended as mourners; the corpse, was carried round 

 the streets by four boys on two white clothes ; a great 

 number following after; at length they returned with 

 the corpse, and Jacko was buried in the yard, to the 

 grief of Grant and the boys ; Grant makes a short re- 

 mark about the monkey in the history of his life. 



There is a pride in the heaitof almost every English- 

 man, that he does not like his poverty should be known, 

 1 knew a poor man in the town where 1 was born, when 

 he went to a public house, he would call for half a pint 

 of beer in a quart pot ; he said to be poor & seem poor, 

 was the Devil, I myself have been unfortunate in this 

 country and am a poor man, but Nature gave me a mind 

 like the Rock of Gibralter; I am now almost 78 years 

 of age, but I never will, give up endeavoring to obtain 

 an honest living, and by the assistance of friends I shall 

 never want bread. But as to the Providence that Grant 

 talks of I know nothing of it. It appears to me this 

 Providence is very partial in bestowing its bounties; it 



