meet with a brother of the mendicant order,
to whom he was well known; they inquired of each other's success, and
many other particulars, and agreed to join company for some time. Mr.
Carew now got a cere-cloth of pitch, which he laid to his arms, with a
raw beef-steak at the top, covered over with white bread and tar, which
has the exact appearance of a green wound. They still continued in the
same story of being cast away, but, added to it, that he had fallen off
the rigging, and wounded his arm in that manner. They travelled together
with good success as far as Shadwell, where they parted company.
Our hero made the best of his way to Holyhead, and begging a passage on
board the packet to Dublin, after a fine trip landed at King's End, near
that city. His first inquiry here was for an old acquaintance, and in
particular for one Mr. Crab, and Lord Annesly, who had been schoolfellows
with him at Tiverton. He found my Lord Annesly lived a mile from the
town, but did not see him the first day, being gone to Blessington, as
the servants told him. Accordingly he set out for that town the next
day, where he found my lord at a tavern with several officers; he went
in, and told the tavern-keeper he wanted to speak with his lordship; but,
as his appearance was none of the best, the tavern-keeper did not like to
deliver this message to my lord, but asked what his business was. Tell
him, said he, that I am an old school-fellow of his, and want to see him.
My lord, being told this, came out with two gentlemen, and inquired who
he was; which our hero told him. Ha! Mr. Carew, said his lordship, is it
you, mon? walk in, walk in. What, said one of the captains, is this old
Carew? the very same, replied my lord. After he had sat down for some
time, and talked over several old affairs with my lord, one of the
captains asked him if he could get him a good pointer. Ay, ay, that he
can, replied his lordship; for, by my saul, mon, he and I have stolen
many a dog, and lain in many a hay tallet, in our youthful days. Then
turning to Mr. Carew, he told his fame was spread as much in Ireland as
in England. Indeed it is so, replied one of the captains. His lordship
then asked him how he found him out there. He replied, he had been
directed there by their old school-fellow, Crab. Well, said my lord, you
shall go home along with me. He desired to be excused, as he designed to
go and see lord St. Leger, who was another of his schoo
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