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selves, if we were question'd: after some puzzle, the young fellow started a proposal, which I thought the finest that could be; and what was that? why that we should pass for husband and wife: I never once dream'd of consequences. We came presently, after having agreed on this notable expedient, to one of those hedge-accommodations for foot-passengers, at the door of which stood an old crazy beldam, who, seeing us trudge by, invited us to lodge there. Glad of any cover, we went in, and my fellow traveller taking all upon him, call'd for what the house afforded, and we supp'd together as man and wife, which considering our figures, and ages, could not have past on any one, but such as any thing could pass on. But when bed-time came on, we had neither of us the courage to contradict our first account of our selves; and what was extremely pleasant, the young lad seem'd as perplex'd as I was, how to evade the lying together, which was so natural for the state we had