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HE Taylor continued to tell the Sultan of Caſgar the Story which he had begun: Sir, ſays he, the lame young Man went on thus: When I heard all that the Barber ſaid to the Cadis, I Fought for a Place to hide my ſelf, and could find-nothing but a great empty Trunk, in which I lay down and ſhut it upon me. The Barber, after he had ſearched every where, came into the Chamber where I was, and opening the Trunk, as ſoon as he ſaw me, he took it upon his Head and carry’d it away. He came down a high Stair-caſe into a Court, which he went through very ſpeedily, and got to the Street, While he carry’d me, the Trunk unhappily opened, and I not being able to endure to be expos’d to the View and Shouts of the Mob that follow’d us, leap’d out into the Street with ſo much haſte that I hurt my Leg, ſo