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Na 4S4. Comer of Watwick^Streetf as I wis listening to a new
Monday, Ballad, a ragged Rascal, a B^s^ who knew me, came up
Aiw:i»tll, to me, and began to turn thcCyes <rf the good Company
upon me, by telling me he was extream Poor, and should
die in the Streets for want of Drink, except I immediately
would ha^e the Charity to give him Six^pence to go into
die next Ale/House and sare his life# He urged, with a
melancholy Face, that all his Family had died of Thirst
All the Mdb have Humour, and two or three began to take
the Jest) by which Mr. 