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MY WATCH determined to keep me back: no sooner had he quitted me, than, to my surprise, I missed my watch. Considering myself an old stager, and too knowing, as I thought, for the light fingered gentry, never before having experienced such a loss -enraged at the moment, I vociferated aloud, " Take care of your pockets, thieves and blackguards! plenty of them here." Furiens, I could not contain myself, but continued my com- plaints so pertinaciously, that a friend, who was with me, was frightened away by the noise. Two days after, calling on a gentleman who was an amateur of the fist, I mentioned the circumstance to him. Knowing the greater portion of the ring, this friend said, "I'l speak to Frosty Faced Fogo, I dare say he'll find it out for you." As I had another watch, and although the chain and seals of the lost one were gold, I was not inclined to purchase then back of a thief. I regretted, indeed, the loss of a mourning ring given to my father, who was included in one of the coaches, a mourner at Garrick's funeral. This ring I very much valued. However, thanking him for his kind offer to serve me, I said I should be happy to pay for the ring, could I possibly procure it again,-and I entertained not the least idea then of ever seeing it. To my astonishment, on calling at his house, he had obtained it for me, having paid a sovereign; truly rejoiced I was to get back such a valuable memento. According to Fogo's account: " Knowing a gemman that was acquainted with a thief, who knew another gemman, it was traced to Duke's Place, where my watch was found deposited cum mailtis aliis." No matter who were the gemmen, the ring since then has ever remained on my finger. Having been from a child so well known to Garrick, the loss to me, of this valued memorial of such a friend as the Roscius, would have been most severe 4 1