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 and his Twelve Misfortunes. 17

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 a- gain, and he promised good behaviour in time to come.

MISFORTUNE V.

On the next morning she sent him to the water to wash some cow’s pud- dings and turn them on a spindle, shewing 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 he carried hame in his hand, crying like a child, and underwent a severe tost of the old plaister,before any mercy was shown.

MISFORTUNE VI. His Father-in-law, next day, sent him