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 and his Twelve Misfortunes. 15

enemy too, and bites his hands till the blood followed, the whole of the tykes comes on a poor John", till down he goes in the dirt amongst their feet, and one of the dogs runs off with his flesh, so John went home both dirty and bloody without his flesh, tell'd Girzy how it happed, who applied her old plasterj; her Tangs a d Tongue made John to curse the very Minister that married them, and wisn’d he might ne’er do a better turn.

MISFORTUNE III.

Next morning, John was sent to the well with the great stoup to bring in water for breakfast; and as he was pull- ing the stoup out of the well, in he tum- bles and his head down, the well being narrow, he could na win out: some peo- ple passing, by chance, heard the slunge, cried, and run to his relief, haul’d him out half dead, and helped him into the house; and after getting a dry sark, he was comforted with the old plaister, her Tongue and the hard Tangs.