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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

Thence away to Mrs. Pierces, who was not at home, but gone to my
house to visit me with Mrs. Knipp.  I therefore took up the little
girl Betty and my maid Mary that now lives there.  And to my
house, there they had been but were gone; so in our way back
again, met them coming back again to my house in Cornehill, and
there stopped, laughing at our pretty misfortunes; and so I
carried them to Fish street street and there treated them with
prawns and lobsters; and it beginning to grow dark, we away; but
the jest is, our horses would not draw us up the Hill, but we were
fain to light and stay till the coachman had made them draw down
to the bottom of the hill, thereby warming their legs; and then
they came up cheerfully enough...
		-- Pepys' Diary, 18 Apr. 1666

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