that,
after having separated so many years, we should all meet again--and that
I should find Mr Cophagus--an apothecary's shop--you dispensing
medicines--and I--as I hope to be--carrying them about as I did before.
Well, I will row in the same boat, and I will be a Quaker as well as you
both."

"Well, we will now return, and I will take you to Mr Cophagus, who
will, I am sure, be glad to see you."

"First, Japhet, let me have some Quaker's clothes--I should prefer it."

"You shall have a suit of mine, Timothy, since you wish it; but
recollect it is not at all necessary, nor indeed will it be permitted
that you enter into the sect without preparatory examination as to your
fitness for admission."

I then went to the shop, and sending out the assistant, walked home and
took out a worn suit of clothes, with which I hastened to Timothy. He
put them on in the shop, and then walking behind the counter, said,
"This is my place, and here I shall remain as long as you do."

"I hope so, Timothy: as for the one who is with me at present, I can
easily procure him other employment; and he will not be sorry to go, for
he is a married man, and does not like the confinement."

"I have some money," said Timothy, taking out of his old clothes a dirty
rag, and producing nearly twenty pounds. "I am well off, you see."

"You are, indeed," replied I.

"Yes, there is nothing like being a sailor with one leg, singing
ballads. Do you know, Japhet, that sometimes have taken more than a
pound a day since I have shammed the sailor?"

"Not very honestly, Tim."

"Perhaps not, Japhet but it is very strange, and yet very true, that
when honest I could make nothing, and when I deceived, I have done very
well."

PART THREE, CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

TIMOTHY COMMENCES HIS NARRATIVE OF HIS SEARCH AFTER JAPHET.

I could not help calling to mind that the same consequences as Timothy
related in the last chapter had occurred to me during my eventful
career; but I had long considered that there was no excuse for
dishonesty, and that, in the end, it would only lead to exposure and
disgrace. I went home early in the evening to introduce Timothy to Mr
Cophagus, who received him with great kindness, and agreed immediately
that he ought to be with me in the shop. Timothy paid his respects to
the ladies, and then went down with Ephraim, who took him under his
protection. In a few days, he was as established with us as if he had
been living with