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your daughters are baith lying corpse. My                  bairns corpse! I am certain they went to                  bed hale and fạir last night. But I tell you, says the other, the dead bell has been thro' warning the folks to the burial, then the mother cries out, О the villian! O the villian that he did not send me word.---So they both ran, and the mother as soon as                  she entered the house, flies to the bed, cry- ing, O my bairns, my dear bairns; on                  which the sluts rose up in a consternation, to the great surprise of the beholders, and the great mortification of the girls, who thought shame to set their noses out of doors, and to the great diversion of the whole town. Leper and his master went to a gentle- man's house to work, where there was a                  saucy house-keeper, who had more ignor- ance and pride than good sense and man- ners; she domineered over her fe!low servants in a tyrannical manner. Leper resolved to                  mortify her pride; so he finds an ant's nest, and takes their white eggs, grinds them to                  a powder, and puts them into the dish her supper sowns was to be put in. After she had taken her supper, as she was covering the table, the imnock powder began to                  operate, and she let a great f---: well done Margaret, said the Laird, your a--- would take a cautioner. Before she got out of the