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and sucli like, two or three old green hats, 

 with their crowns thrust in, so as to hold ten 

 or a dozen eggs, which were of a pheasant kind 

 of poultry he took much care of, and fed him- 

 self. Tables, dice, cards, and bowls were 

 not wanting. In the hole of the desk were 

 scores of tobacco-pipes that had been 

 used. 



" On one side of this end of the room was 

 the door of a closet, wherein stood the strong 

 beer and the wine, which never came thence 

 but in sino^le sflasses, that beinof the rule of 

 the house strictly observed, for he never ex- 

 ceeded in drink or permitted it. On the other 

 side was the door into an old chapel, not used 

 for devotion ; the pulpit, as the safest place, 

 was never wanting of a cold chine of beef, 

 venison pasty, gammon of bacon, or great 

 apple-pie, with thick crust, extremely baked. 



" His table cost him not much, thoug^h it 

 was good to eat at ; his sports supplied all but 

 beef and mutton, except Fridays, when he had 

 the best salt fish (as well as other fish) he 

 could get, and that was the day his neigh- 

 bours of best quality most visited him. He 

 never wanted a London Pudding, and always 

 sang it in with ' My past lies therein — a.' 



