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17 of a house, there was a great big cat sitting in a weaver’s window, beiking herself in the sun, and washing her faeeface [sic] with her feet; I gave her a eivilcivil [sic] knap on the nose, whiehwhich [sic] made her turn baekback [sic] in through the window, and the weaver having a plate full of hot pottage in the innerside to cool, poor baudrins ran through the middle of them, burnt her feet, and threw them on the ground ran through the house crying fire and murder in her own language, which eausedcaused [sic] the weary wiekedwicked [sic] wabster to come to the door, where he attacked me in a furious rage, and I, to avoid the first shoekshock [sic], fled to the top of the midden, where, endeavouring to give me a kick, I eatchedcatched [sic] him by the foot, and tumbled him back into the middendub, where both his head and shoulders went under dirt and water; but before I could reeoverrecover [sic] my elwand or arms, the wicked wife and her twa sons were upon me in all quarters, the wife hung in my hair, while the twa sons boxed me both behind and before, and being thus overpowered by numbers, I was fairly beat by this wicked webster, his troops being so numerous.

On the Saturday night thereafter, I was like to be badly off for quarters, I travelled until many people were going to bed; but at last I came to a farmer’s house asked what they would buy, naming twenty fine things which I never had, and then asked for quarters, which they very freely