ea on the poor farmer.

Having obtained this third contribution from the unsuspecting 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
informed how he had fared, diverted themselves exceedingly with the
stratagem; and shortly after, meeting with Squire Rhodes, they discovered
the various impositions that had been practised upon him, and very
heartily bantered him thereupon.

Some time after this, Mr. Carew, exercising his profession at Modbury
(where squire Rhodes's father lived), among other houses made his
application to Legassick's, where he by chance was visiting. Mr. Carew
knocked at the kitchen door, which being opened, he saw his old friend
the squire, who was then alone, and in a careless manner swinging his
cane about. As soon as he began to tell his lamentable tale, Mr. Rhodes
said, "I was three times in one day imposed on by that rogue, Bampfylde
Moore Carew, to whose gang you may very likely belong; furthermore, I do
not live here, but am a stranger." Mean time in comes Mr. Legassick,
with a bottle of wine in his hand, giving Mr. Carew a private wink, to
let him understand that he knew him, and then very gravely inquired into
the circumstances of his misfortune, as also of the affairs and
inhabitants of Dartmouth, from whence he pretended to have sailed several
times; of all which he gave a full and particular account; upon which Mr.
Legassick gave him five shillings, and recommended him as a real object
to Mr. Rhodes, who also made the same present; upon which Mr. Legassick
burst out laughing; and, being asked the reason thereof, he could not
forbear telling him, even in Mr. Carew's presence; when Mr. Rhodes,
finding himself a fourth time imposed upon by the same person, with a
great deal of good nature made himself very merry therewith.

Mr. Carew being now advanced in years, and his strength beginning to
fail, he was seized with a violent fever, which confined him to his bed
for several weeks; on recovering he reflected how idly he had spent his
life, and came to the resolution of resigning the Egyptian sceptre. The
assembly finding him determined, reluctantly complied, and he departed
amidst the applause, as well as the regrets of his subjects, who
despaired of ever again having such a king.

Our hero returned home to the place of his nativity, but finding the air
of the town not rightly to agree wi