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HISTORY OF SIMPLE JOHN

TWELVE MISFORTUNES.

IMPLE JOHN was a widow's ſon, and a coarſe country weaver to his trade; he made nothing but ſuch as canvas for caff-beds, corn and coal-ſacks, druggit and harn was the fineſt webs he cou'd lay his fingers to; he was a great lump of a lang, lean lad, aboon ſax feet high afore he was eighteen year auld, and as he ſaid himſel, he grew ſae fast, and was in ſic a hurry to be high, that he did not ſtay to bring a' his judgement with him, but yet he hoped it would follow him, and he would meet wi't, as mony a' ane does after they're marri-