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19 her up, but found none of it in her guts or gabbia; then says he, they have been but looking for it, I'll go do as they did; strips off his clothes and leaves them on the bridge, go-s in a ducking, in which time, a ragiman came past, and took a- way all his clothes. So he went home naked to get a bath of the old plaister.

MISFORTUNE VIII.

The next morning, she sent him to a farm-house for a pig-ful of butter-milk, and as he was returning through the fields, the farmer's bull and another bull was fighting; the farmer's bull being like o to lose, John runs in behind him, and gets his head to the bull's tail, on pur- pose to help him to push against the other; but the poor bull thought John was some other bull attacking him be- hind, fled aside, and the other bull came full drive upon John, pushed him down broke the pig, and spilt the milk So John went home to get his auld plaister, which began to be an usual diet to him, and so he regarded it the less.