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 up, and then she laboured him all the way hame, and he cried, O sirs, ye see what it is to be married!! The mother-in-law had to make up peace again, and he promised good behaviour in time to come.

On the next morning she sent him to the water to wash some cow's puddings 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 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 tost of the old plaister before any mercy was shewn.

His father-in-law, next day sent him