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under a little Covering of Boards, and there 

 fell faft afleep. How long we lay thus, I 

 can't fay, but, at laft, Mr. Rounce waked us 

 with a Story, that he had feen an old Gen- 

 tleman very richly dreffed, carried along the 

 Yard into the Houfe, whom he verily be- 

 lieved to be an Englifbman ; for that he fhould 

 call to him as he paffed by, and fay in 

 EngUJh, How do you do, Countryman ? But 

 this, he faid, was not the only Reafon he 

 had neither to believe him fuch ; for that the 

 firft Moment he caft his Eyes upon him, he 

 knew his Face, and remembred he had been 

 particularly acquainted with him, fome Years 

 before, in England. We ask'd him what Anfwer 

 he made, he faid none ; for that his Surprize was 

 fo great, he had not Power to open his Mouth. 

 For my Part, as I had been afleep all the while 

 myfelf, and knew nothing of the Matter, I 

 was apt to think, that he had been fo too, 

 and knew as little, but that he had dreamed 

 the Story, and awaking fuddenly out of his 

 Sleep, imagined it to be Matter of Faft. 

 But to be certain of the Thing, we got up, 

 and went direcily into the Houfe, and there 

 found the old Gentleman in Reality, fitting 

 in a Sort of Chair. He was wrap'd up in a 



Cloak 



