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not ken that tailors potage is heavier than other mens. Indeed lad I believe it, but they say ye're a warlock; its Wednes- day all the world o'er, and a waefu' Wed- nesday to me indeed, my pot might ha'e                  served me this fifty year, a sae wad it                   e'en.. This sport diverted Leper and his lads through the day; and after supper, know- ing he was to get some dirty bed, as the cows and the people lived all in one apart- ment, he choose rather to go home; and knowing the moon was to rise a little after midnight, he sat by the fire, told them many a fine story to drive away the time, and bade the wife make the bed to see how it                  might be: to save candle she made it in                   the dark, directly on the floor behind where they sat, shaking down two bottles of straw; a calf which chanced to be lying on that place, and which the wife did not notice was covered with the straw, and the bed clothes spread over it. The most of the family be- ing in bed, the wife told them to go to bed also, but Leper knowing of the calf, said I'll make my bed come to me, on which the wife began to pray for herself and all that was in the house; so up he gets his elwand, and gives a stroke on the bed which caused the brute to rise, and not seeing where to                  go, it fell a crying and turned round, which