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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...pedlar,' said he, 'may I be so bold as to inquire the cause of your wandering up and down the bridge all this livelong day, without intent, methinks, to gain any advantage thereby?' The pedlar, who, by this time, began himself to mistrust tho reasonableness of his errand, was loth to expose what might be his own folly: but, at last, on being very much pressed, 'Well,' quoth he, 'an' I must tell you, a vision bade me come to London Bridge, for that there I should find a treasure: but treasure have I found none, and, unless I am the more fortunate, back shall I go as poor as I came.' 'Never trust again to visions,' quoth the othor: 'if I had been fool enough to be taken in by them, I might have boon sent, ere now, on as wild-goose a chase as you have been. I dreamed, once on a time, that I saw a figure which bade me go to a town called Swaffham, in Norfolk, to a pedlar's house lying hard by the church (naming our own pedlar's abode), and dig in a corner of his garden, for that I should find a pot of gold there; but I never went, and never mean to go; and you, methinks, had done well to stay at home, and mind your own business, as I did.' 'Good evening, friend,' quoth the pedlar: 'I'll warrant you I'll never come to look for treasure on London Bridge again.' Back he and his dog journey to Swaffham: he calls for pickaxe and spade, and falls vigorously to work in the described corner of his garden. Presently he hits on something hard: he redoubles his efforts, and turns it out: it is a large pot of gold.-With part of it he builds the church, and a magnificent perpendicular erection it is: and, in commemoration of the adventure, had it carved on the wooden seats; where, however, much of it is destroyed: but the figure of the pedlar and muzzled dog occurs on the s...
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