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17 MISFORTUNE V.

On the next morning she sent him the water to wash some cow's puddings and turn them on a spindle, showing him how he was to do or he sent away. John goes to the water very willingly, and as he turned and washed them, he laid them down behind 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 he carried hame in his hand, crying like a child, and underwent a severe ost of the old plaister before any mercy was shown.

MISFORTUNE VI.

His father-in-law, next day, sent him away to bring home a fat calf he had bought in the country, and tied up the money in a napkin, which he carried in his hand for fear he should lose it. Being very weighty, as it was lin half-pence, and as he was going ongst a bridge, he meets a man running after his horse, who cries to