tlemen were not got into the house before their ears were
saluted with a "tantivy, tantivy," and halloo to the dogs, upon which
they turned about, supposing it to be some brother sportsman, but seeing
nobody, Worthy Sir swore the old woman they had relieved was Carew; a
servant therefore was dispatched to bring her back; and she was brought
into the parlour among the gentlemen, where, being examined, she
confessed herself to be the famous Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, which made
the gentlemen very merry, and they were now all employed in untying the
children from his back, and observing the features and dress of this
grandmother, which afforded them sufficient entertainment. They
afterwards rewarded our hero for the mirth he procured them.

In the same manner he raised a contribution of Mr. Jones, of Ashton near
Bristol, twice in one day, who had maintained, with a gentleman of his
acquaintance, that he could not be so deceived. In the morning, with a
sooty face, leather apron, a dejected countenance, and a woollen cap, he
was generously relieved as an unfortunate blacksmith, whose all had been
consumed by fire: in the afternoon he exchanged his logs for crutches;
his countenance was now pale and sickly, his gestures very expressive of
pain, his complaints lamentable, a poor unfortunate tinner, disabled from
maintaining himself, a wife, and seven children, by the damps and
hardships he had suffered in the mines; and so well did he paint his
distress, that the disabled tinner was now as generously relieved as the
unfortunate blacksmith had been in the morning.

Being now near the city of Bath, where he had not long before made so
great a figure with his new married bride, he was resolved to visit it in
a very different shape and character; he therefore tied up one of his
legs behind him, and supplied its place with a wooden one, and putting on
a false beard, assumed the character of a poor old cripple. In this
disguise he had an opportunity of entertaining himself with the different
receptions he met with from every order of men now, from what he had done
before in his fine rich clothes. The rich, who before saluted him with
their hats and compliments, now spurned him out of their way; the
gamesters overlooked him, thinking he was no fish for their net; the
chairmen, instead of Please your honour, d---d him; and the pumpers, who
attentively marked his nod before, now denied him a glass of water. Many
of the clergy, tho