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do you make that out?" " Easy enough," 

 said he. " It's no matter how you're dressed 

 when you beg of the poor, if you've only a 

 good tongue, and fit your tale to the listener : 

 but with people better off, you can't be too 

 ragged; and if you can show a sore like 

 mine, so much the better. The poor give 

 because you get the better of their feelings, 

 and they know what 'tis to want and to be 

 hungry and a-cold; but the rich give you 

 something because you make 'em feel un- 

 comfortable, and they want to get you out 

 of their sight." 



" What do you say to that, Gregory?" 

 said the squire. " Why, he's quite right," 

 said I. " So he is," said my master ; and he 

 got on his horse, and off he rode: and I've 

 learnt ever since then to give nothing away 

 to people I know nothing about. I wrote 

 all this down as soon as ever I got home, 

 for I learnt more from that fellow than I 'm 

 likely to forget very soon. He said he'd 

 never been to school ; for his father used to 

 say, " More school, more fool :" " But," said 

 he, "if he had been able to write, like 

 enough I might be able to find him ; for 

 then perhaps he'd have written to some one 



