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not ken that tailor's potage is heavier than other men's.' 'Indeed, lad, I believe it, but they say ye're a warlock; it's Wednesday 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, knowing he was to get some dirty bed, as the cows and the people lived all in one apartment, he chose 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, just 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 being 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 ellwand, 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 set the whole house a roaring out murder in their own tongue.