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up, and then she laboured him all the way hame, and he, crying, “ O sirs, “ ye see what it is to be married;" the Mither-in-law had to mak up peace again, and he promised good behavi- our in time to come.

M I S F O R T U N E       V.

On the next morning she sent him

to the water to wash some cow’s-pud- dings, and turn them on a spindle, showing him how he was to do or he went away ; John goes to the water very willingly, and as he turn’d and wash’d them, he laid them down be- hind him, where one of his Father-in- law’s big dogs stood, and ate them up as fast as he laid them down, till all was gone but the very last ane, which lie carried hame in his hand, crying like a child, and underwent a severe tost of the old plaister, before any mercy was shown.

M I S F O R T U N E  VI

His Father-in-law, next day, sent him away to bring home a fat calf he                               had