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 THE COMICAL

HISTORY OF

SIMPLE JOHN AND HIS TWELVE MISFORTUNES.

SIMPLE JOHN was a widow's son, and a course country weaver to his trade: He made nothing but such a canvas for caff-beds, corn and coal sacks, drugget and ham was the finest webs he could lay his fingers to: he was a great lump of a lang, lean lad, aboon sax feet 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