Part 8 (1/2)
The doctor, being no longer able to keep his seat, fell headlong into the miry street; the horse ran into a river, and rolled himself over several times, to the entire confusion and ruin of the inestiood farrier, and after soain The reader lorious diversion this was for the apothecary and Mr Careere spectators of the whole scene He was treated handsomely upon this account, not only by the apothecary, but all others of the saentleenerous captain befriended him with many recommendatory letters to friends and acquaintance, that lay in his road, as he pretended: nay, indeed, he was never out of it; thence he proceeded to Bristol, and other places where the letters were directed to, and received considerable sums of money from many, on account of these letters, which were entlemen that had been at sea, ho by desire of the captain, as was mentioned in the letters, that they examined him
Sometimes he and his wife, in conjunction with Coleipseys of extraordinary knowledge and reputation:person becaot in almost every town of the counties of Cornwall and Devon Once in particular, hi in Buckford-sleigh, near Exeter, one Mr Collard, a wealthy but simple shoemaker, came to their quarters, to consult them on a very intricate and important affair; he told them, ”that it was the opinion of every body in the country, that his grande sums of money before her death, and that himself, by several dreaht proper to advise with the but they, by the help of their profound learning and knowledge, for which they were so fa hiht find this particular treasure, which if they would discover to hiicians, after long deliberation and consultation with their books, told hiht take a ith one of therandmother; that he must not be afraid of the apparition, but follow it till it vanished away, and in that individual spot of ground frohost vanished, there he would find the hidden treasure”
In order for the execution of this scheme, Coleman put a woman's cap on his head, washed his face, and sprinkled meal on it while wet, stuck the broken pieces of a tobacco-pipe between his teeth, and wrapping his body in a white sheet, planted himself in the road that Collard and Mr Careere to coave an additional horror to the pretended spectre Our hero, by virtue of his supposed profound learning and e, to the following effect:-”High, wort, bush rule hioblin fiercely advanced up to poor Collard, and with a reatly terrified thereat, and shook and tre close to Mr Carew, laid fast hold of his clothes, i he had sufficient power to protect hi appearance of this insolent apparition; whereupon he bid the ghost, ”hike to the vile;”
and would have persuaded the frightened Collard to have followed his departing grandmother, in order to observe the particular place from which she vanished; but no persuasions of his could induce him to move from his side
They then returned to the alehouse they had left, and Mr Carew (this h the shoeure, and informed Crispin, that, if he took up two or three planks of the floor of his little parlour, he would there find the concealed treasure, at the depth of about three or four feet: upon his hearing this joyful news, the shoe them as people of the profoundest skill that he had ever heard of or conversed with: but whether he was of the sa for the treasure, ill not take upon us to say-but we , a short titon, in the character of a cast-away seaman, he went to the house of Mr
Joseph Haze, an eed relief, in the most earnest manner he was able, for God's sake, with uplifted eyes and hands, and upon his bended knee; but could not with all his iht of small beer Mr Carew, not accustomed to be unsuccessful in his applications, could by no ht it highly necessary, for the benefit of his coreat sportsreyhounds, the one named Hector, the other Fly; and two excellent spaniels, Cupid and Dido, and an ad, called Sancho Our hero, therefore, about twelve o'clock on the saht away all these fine dogs with him And afterwards he sent a letter to the parson, to this purpose:-
”REV SIR,
”You err, if you suspect yourself to have been wronged of your dogs by any of your neighbours; the cast-away seaed so earnestly, for the love of God, to whoht of small beer, took them away, to teach you another tiers more as becomes your profession, and your plentiful circumstances”
The mayor of Weymouth, in Dorsetshi+re, fared little better at his hands
This gentleman was an implacable ene to be in that town, and overhearing thethat he was going to dine with Captain Colloway, of Upton, he thought this a proper opportunity for taking sonities he had put on his subjects Having soon got intelligence what suits of clothes the ood snuff-coloured suit, he went to his house, and informed the lady mayoress that he was a sea to dinner at Captain Colloway's, of Upton, and his honour had sent hi him orders to receive his snuff-coloured suit of clothes fro, without the least scruple, quickly brought him the coat, waistcoat, and breeches
Thus our hero, by turning his natural ingenuity to account, procured a handso hi two dogs with one stone It is unnecessary to say, that our hero departed fro in Bristol, at a time when there was a hot press, wherein they not only impressed seamen, but able-bodied landmen they could any where meet with, whichthe city into a great rout and consternation, he, aerous bigness, he illing to secure hi his own ease to the interest and honour of his king He therefore set his wife and landlady to work, ith all speed, and proper attention to cleanliness, s, cheesecakes, and custards, which our hero, in the ordinary attire of a female vender of these co, plu hot, hot plu echoed in every street and corner, even in the , some of whom spent their penny with this masculine pie-woman, and seldom failed to serenade her with many a complimentary title, such as bitch and whore
Arriving at Squire Rhodes's seat, near King's-bridge in Devonshi+re, and knowing the squire had ht proper also to become a Dorsetshi+re man, and of Lyme, which was the place of the lady's nativity, and applied hiiving the to Lys each, for country's sake, and entertained him very well at their own house
This was early in the forenoon, and he wished to put off his ti upon another adventure
Going from hence, he went to a public-house, called Malston-cross, about a quarter of a mile from the squire's; he there fell into company with Squire Reynolds, Squire Ford, Dr Rhodes, brother to the squire, and several other gentle-match, in which they had been uncommonly successful, and were much inclined to be jovial In the afternoon there was a terrific storreat violence for several hours: in the reat mind to clear his afternoon's expenses) stripped off all his apparel, except his nightcap, shoes, and breeches, and went to Squire Rhodes's Nothing could possibly look with a more deplorable appearance than this naked and wretched spectacle, in such dreadful weather: the landlord with pity regarding his destitute appearance, fetched hiht, to cover his nakedness; but upon his endeavouring to put it on, it proved to be a sood woreat deal of diversion to the good squire and his benevolent lady, who happened to be looking fro to hi frobury-bay, during the late violent te to Poole, and he was the only person on board that had escaped Squire Rhodes ordered a fine Holland shi+rt, and a suit of good clothes to be given to hiiving his, dismissed him with every mark of commiseration for his unfortunate condition, not in the least suspecting him to be the poor Lyenerous in relieving his wants in thesucceeded sotwo contributions, in one day, on the benevolent Squire Rhodes and his lady, he quickly deterood-nature: for which purpose he retired to the nearest house which was frequented by the members of his community, where he dressed himself as a farmer, and speedily returned to the squire's, to whose presence he was admitted He stated that he had been a tenant on the estate of Squire H---, (a gentleree,) for many years, where he had reared a numerous and happy fao the squire had seduced his eldest daughter, a handso birth to a still-born son: that his wife had died shortly after of a broken heart, and he was left to struggle through the world with a helpless fah bad crops and bad debts, he had fallen in arrears of his rent; and his cruel landlord had seized upon his whole stock, and turned him out of his favourite home, to become a destitute wanderer-destitute of food, shelter or clothing for himself and family The benevolent Squire Rhodes whose ear was ever open to the tale of pity-whose heart was ever ready to relieve the unfortunate, after venting uinea on the poor far obtained this third contribution fro squire, he returned to the public-house, where the gentlemen waited for him (for they were the principal occasion of this last adventure); and being inforly with the stratage with Squire Rhodes, they discovered the various impositions that had been practised upon him, and very heartily bantered hi his profession at Modbury (where squire Rhodes's father lived), aassick's, where he by chance was visiting Mr Carew knocked at the kitchen door, which being opened, he saw his old friend the squire, as then alone, and in a careless an to tell his lamentable tale, Mr Rhodes said, ”I was three tiue, Ba; furtherer” Mean tiassick, with a bottle of wine in his hand, giving Mr Carew a private wink, to let hiravely inquired into the circumstances of his misfortune, as also of the affairs and inhabitants of Dartmouth, from whence he pretended to have sailed several tiave a full and particular account; upon which Mr
Legassick gave his, and recommended him as a real object to Mr Rhodes, who also assick burst out laughing; and, being asked the reason thereof, he could not forbear telling hi hireat deal of good naturenow advanced in years, and his strength beginning to fail, he was seized with a violent fever, which confined hi he reflected how idly he had spent his life, and cayptian sceptre The asse him determined, reluctantly complied, and he departed arets of his subjects, who despaired of ever again having such a king
Our hero returned ho the air of the town not rightly to agree with hi his circumstances quite easy, he retired to the west country, where he purchased a neat cottage, which he e a good old English gentlehbours, and beloved by the poor, to whom his doors were ever open Here he died, full of years and honours, regretted by all
Having left his daughter a handsoood fa children
We shall now conclude our true history, by observing, that we consider Mr Carew to have as good a claim to fae We acknowledge he had his faults, but every body knows a perfect character is quite out of fashi+on, and that the authors of the present age hold it as an absurdity to draw even a fictitious hero without an abundance of faults
A DICTIONARY OF THE CANT LANGUAGE
As the Language of the Community of Gipseys is very expressive, and different froratify the curious by publishi+ng a specimen of it