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his return. His parents did every thing to render home agreeable to him: but the uncommon pleasure he had enjoyed in the community he had left, their simplicity, freedom, sincerity. mirth, and frequent change of habitation, and the secret passages of the honour he has since arrived at, sickened and palled all other diversions, and at last prevailed over his filial duty; for one day, without taking leave of his friends or parents he went back to them again, where he was heartily welcomed, both to his own and their satisfaction, they being glad to regain one who was likely to become so useful a member of their community.
Carew’s first adventure in his profession.
CAREW being again initiated among them at the first general assembly of the gypsies took the oaths of allegiance to their sovereign, by whom he was soon set out on a cruise against their enemies Carew now set his wits to work how to succeed: so equipping himself with an old pair of trousers a piece of a jacket just enough to cover his nakedness, stockings foil of holes, and an old