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of which Lavengro sold for 20 pounds, and upon the proceeds of which he started upon the ramble which led him to the dingle.

The _Life of Joseph Sell_ is not known to Bibliography; but the incident is nevertheless probably drawn from Borrow's own career.
{330} "Good." {337} The next time the compassionate word-master visited the landlord, he found him a 'down pin' no longer, but the centre of an adulatory crowd.

The way in which he surmounted the sea of troubles that beset him is described with much humour in _The Romany Rye_ (chap.

xvii).