THE ADVENTURES OF A BANK-N O T E. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. -Explebo numerum, reddarque tenebris. VIRG. EN. When I've held up a proper number Of fools and knaves, and fuch-like lumber, DUBLIN: Printed for H. SAUNDERS, D. CHAMBERLAINE, THE ADVENTURES OF A BANK-N O T E. CHAP. I. Blind Man and Dog against Potticar and Paftry Cook. M Y new acquaintance the apothecary was about four feet and an inch high; not but that he was designed by nature to have been a taller man, but by a hurt received either in the womb, or when he was very young, his legs ftand a full foot north-east of his body; fo that if a perfon happens to be in a direct line betwixt you and him, you either fee a body fwimming in the air without any legs to fupport it, or a pair of legs walking by themselves without any body belonging to them. I was wondering to myself that he fhould fqueeze me up in fuch company as a brace a brace of clyfter-pipes; but I foon found that instead of being an affront, it was defigned as a compliment, for he took imnenfe care of his clyfter-pipes, because they were the fupport of his fhop, his proper height to adminifter having brought him very great bufinefs in that branch. The day after I came into his poffeffion, as he was standing not far from a noted pastrycook's, rubbing his forehead, to confider whether he should perform his pipe-operation on Lady Broadftern, or first blifter my Lady Drowfey-and then proceed to bombard the rear of Lady Broadftern. Whilft I fay he was standing still to debate this weighty point, up comes the blind man's dog, followed by his master: the dog was a well taught fenfible animal, that knew that if he walk'd between any man's legs, his mafter was rather too big to follow, he therefore always carefully avoided that path; as for the women's legs they were guarded by their petticoats, else perhaps his master would have had no objection to following that track: but be that as it may, the dog was taught to go between no body's legs at all; if therefore he was obliged to fqueeze ever so close, he always kept either on this or t'other fide of all he met or overtook: now it fo happened, that though he went on the outfide of both the apothe |