eral inhabitants of the city. From
Copenhagen he went to Elsinburgh, thence to Elsinore, where he got a
passage for England, and once more arrived in his native country.
Landing at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he visited his wife's relations, and then
set forward for Devonshire, travelling all the way in the character of a
shipwrecked seaman. Meeting at Exeter with his beloved wife, and
likewise with his friend Coleman and his wife, they travelled together
for some time, during which Coleman's wife was delivered of a daughter;
but as they found so helpless an infant a great hindrance to their
travelling, Mr. Carew contrived a stratagem to get rid of it, and at the
same time advanced the fortune of the child.

There was in the town, where they then were, a gay bachelor, who lived
with his mother and sisters, and was a great admirer of that order of
female travellers called Cousin Betties. Coleman's wife had been with
him some months before in that character, was very well entertained, and,
amongst other favours, received a present of a silk handkerchief. They
therefore dressed up the babe very neatly, wrapped it up exceeding warm,
and put it in a hand-basket, taking care to put in the handkerchief
Coleman's wife had received from this gay bachelor; then getting a large
boar cat, in the dusk of the evening they tied it to the knocker of the
door, setting down before it the basket with the helpless infant. The
cat, not liking the treatment, made a hideous squalling, and with his
struggling, rap, rap, rap, went the knocker of the door; out ran the
gentleman, with his mother, sisters, and servants, and the neighbourhood
gathered about the door to see what this noise could mean. Mr. Carew and
Coleman mingled among them to learn what would be the event of their
stratagem. The cat, by long struggling, got free of the knocker, and ran
away, only leaving part of the tail behind. The basket alone now engaged
the attention of every one, and being delivered to the gentleman to open,
the feeble cries of an infant soon reached their ears. The mother and
sisters, alarmed at this unexpected salutation, snatched the basket from
him, and upon the child's breast found a note in these words:

"Remember, sir, where you last met me, you have not been so kind as
you often promised and swore you would: however, it justly belongs to
you. I have made bold to send you the fruits of our meeting, and
this handkerchief which you mad