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and led to too serious a result, for him 

 to encounter the risk. 1 believe he 

 delighted in dishonesty ; for he would 

 show as much ingenuity, and take as 

 much trouble, to rob a chimney-sweep of 

 sixpence, as he would one of his own class 

 of one hundred pounds. 



He occupied a farm in the Fens, and 

 on one occasion, when he had purchased 

 some bullocks of a neighbouring farmer, 

 he offered in payment a bill, which the 

 other, having been assured that it was as 

 good as money, readily agreed to take. He 

 ignorantly signed his name, accordingly, to 

 what he supposed was a regular draft at 

 two months, which, when it had come to 

 maturity, turned out to be a receipt for 

 the money 250?. 



But to come to what I witnessed myself. 

 It was one cold frosty morning shortly 

 after Christmas ; I was on my journey 

 down, with him on the box the only pas- 

 senger I had on the outside when a man, 



