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of a troop of horſe, and was in great hopes of higher promotion. But being one day ſent out a foraging, I followed my orders with ſuch ſcrupulous punctuality, that I emptied not only granaries and barns, but the cheſts and coffers both of houſes and churches that fell in my beat. Unluckily it was a friend’s country, ſo it occaſioned a great outcry Malicious people went ſo far as to call it a marauding expedition. I was brought to a court-martial, and ſentenced to run the gauntlet through a lane of fifteen hundred men. Having thus been diſcharged from the honourable profeſſion in which I had hoped to make my fortune, I could now think of no reſource but to return to my firſt occupation. But I had neither money to purchaſe a ſtock of leather, nor inclination to work. As I ſuppoſed myſelf to have an undoubted property in my old goods, ſeeing I had ſold them below their value, I reſolved to recover them, and