120 SWINDLE. 



" Oh, no, Sir. You shall have my hand- 

 writing, and I am to have yours." 



"Exactly so. When we get to Hod- 

 desdon you shall have it." 



At Hoddesdon we soon arrived, when, 

 the schemer turning round to his dupe, 

 who had got his purse or pocket-book out 

 to pay me his fare, said, " You must give 

 me eighteen-pence to purchase the stamp." 

 He deliberately put his finger and thumb 

 in and took out one shilling and a sixpence. 

 " Now come with me," he added. He then 

 led him into a back room, saying to the 

 landlady as he passed the bar, " Give that 

 poor man a pint of beer," desiring him at 

 the same time to remain there while he 

 went to get the stamp. He now came 

 chuckling to me with the one shilling and 

 sixpence in his hand, exclaiming 



"There, Mr. Coachman that is more 

 than you have earned this morning." 



4 Yes," I said, for I could no longer 

 contain my detestation of his knavish trick ; 



