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Muſſel mu'd Harrie, the ſkull-maker, whoſe was nailed to a tree near my lord's garden, for ting young faughs, for to make creels and ſkulls. He aſſumed a head dreſs as he had been a devil, went and played his tricks in the night time, which frighted the whole town until the time he was catched by my lord's piper. He was then ſent for to the miniſter, and was obliged to put on his frightful dreſſ with the appearance of two horns on his head, the miniſter rebuked him, but he had the aſſurance to the miniſter that he only frighted his own town, that he frighted the whole pariſh, by telling the repent or be dd, this is your gate o't ſtir, made them repent by fright, and I think I paid by your honour for't, as you tell me ſtir about lord's faughs which I ſuſſered for, if your 'onours lug had been there, you could not get off ſo eaſily, ſtir your lugs is as long as my gray cat's, ſo I bid you farewel until next meeting.