14 The Fortuns and Misfortunes
The uncommon ſucceſs I had met with, made me go into the country, and at Cambridge, Sturbitch fair, and New-market, I very expertly per- formed the ſame pranks. At Ipſwich, I robbed a gentleman of a portmanteau, by pretending to be his wife, at an inn, in which was a large quattity of gold and ſilver. Being come to London, and ventur- ing into a Silver-ſmith's ſhop, when no one was there, I was perceived by a ſhop-keeper over the way; but as I had got a glance of him, I medled with nothing: and, a juſtice of the peace juſt then coming by, being called in, cleared me with flying colours. Another time going into a millin- er's ſhop in Cheapſide, and cheapen- ing half a dozen of Holland ſhifts, I doubted the length of them, upon which, ſhe ſlipped one of the ſhifts upon her, which gave me an oppor- tunity to pin it with two or three pins to her petticoat; and then taking up the reſt with ſeveral fine pieces of muſlin, I ran away out of the ſhop. The milliner, endeavouring to pull off the ſmock, pulled up her petticoats,
