Adventures and adventurers > Adventures of Roderick Random

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\o make bis chanibei maui lay the child to w'fr
after 1 wa gone; and, accordingly, I set out
in a few-weeks lor .London; iny .whole for¬
tune consisting of one suit of clothes, half-
a-dozen ruffled shirts, and as many plain;
£wo pair of worstedostockings. and as many
thread; a case of pocket instruments, a small
edition of Horace, Wiseman’s Surgery,^and
ten guineas in cash; for which Crab took'
rny bond, bearing five per cent interest;
at the same time, giving me a letter to the
men;her of Parliament for our town, which
he said would dd my business. My .finances
were too weak to support, the expences of
hiring a horse ; so I determined on^ setting
out with the carriers, who Ufnspcrt goods
from one place to another on horseback.er-
•This I accordingly pat in execution, on the
31. day of November 3739, sitting upon
a pack-saddle bi-tween two baskets; one of
vh+cli contained my goods in a knapsack.—
jhit by thg time we' arriyl'd at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, I was shfatigued and lieiuimbed
with cold, that I resolved to travel the rest,
of my joifrney on foot. nr.. .
The hostler of the inn at which we put up,
understanding I was bound for London, ad¬
vised me to take my-passa*ge..in a collier.—
I was almost persuaded to Take his advice,
when happening tin go into a barbar’s shop
to he shaved, the young man, v/hile he la¬
thered tay face,-accosted Tafi-thus: Sir, I
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