£54 TRAVELS 11$ 
a£t,» without conftraint or fhame, fuch fcenes as they 
would abhor when fober or in their fenfes ; and 
would endanger their ears and even their lives : 
hut at laft their liquor running low, and being 
mod of them fick through intoxication, they be- 
came more fober ; and now the dejected lifelefs 
fots would pawn every thing they were in pof- 
feffionof, for a mouthful of fpirits to fettle their 
llomachs, as they termed it. This was the time 
for the wenches to make their market, as they hod 
the fortitude and fubtilty by dimmulation and arti- 
fice to fave their mare of the liquor during the 
frolick, and that by a very fmgular ftratagem ; for, 
at thefe riots, every fellow who joins in the club, 
has his own quart bottle of rum in his hand, hold- 
ing it by the neck fo lure, that he never loofes hold 
cf it day or night, drunk or fober, as long as the 
frolick continues ; and with this, his beloved friend, 
he roves about continually, finging, roaring, and 
reeling to and fro, either alone, or arm in arm with 
a brother toper, preferring his bottle to every one, 
offering a drink \ and is fure to meet his beloved 
female if he can, whom he complaifantly begs to 
drink with him. But the modeft fair, veiling her 
face in a mantle, refufes, at the beginning of the 
frolick ; but he preffes and at lad infills. She being 
furnimed with an empty bottle, concealed in her 
mantle, at laft confents, and taking a good long 
draught, blames, drops her pretty face on her bo- 
fom, and artfully discharges the rum into her bot- 
tle, and by repeating this artifice foon fills it : 
this (lie privately conveys to her fecret (tore, and 
then returns to the jovial game, and fo on during 
the fedival ; and when the comic farce is over, 
the wench retails this precious cordial to them at her 
own price* 
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