CHAPTER VIII.

_How Poor Robin ate Dog-stones instead of Lamb-stones._

As Poor Robin was more addicted to flesh than fish, so of all sorts of

flesh he loved a dish of lamb-stones best. A merry disposed companion

knowing his appetite, resolved to put a trick upon him. A gentleman of

the town who kept a pack of hounds, having gelt his dogs, he gets the

stones, and with a few sweet breads presents them to poor Robin as a

dainty dish. Poor Robin very thankful for so great kindness would not

stay, but presently had them dressed, making all the haste he could, for

fear any should come in to be partakers with him in his dinner. But

having eaten them, and understood the truth, he fell a-spewing as if his

gall would come up with it. Poor Sarah, in like manner, disgorged her

stomach, so that who should have seen them, would have concluded them

drunk with eating.

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