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kirk? Leper replied, 'I'm reading my book and cooking my pot, which I think is a work of necessity.' Then says the one to the other, 'Don't answer that graceless fellow; we'll make him appear before his betters.' So they took the kail pot, and puts a staff through the bools, and bears it to the Clerk's chamber. Leper, who was never at a loss for invention, goes to the Principal of the College's house, no body being at home but a lass roasting a leg of mutton. Leper says, 'My dear, will you go and bring me a drink of ale, and I'll turn the spit till you come back.' The lass was no sooner gone than he run's away with the leg of mutton, which served his lads and him for their supper. When the Principal came home, he was neither to haud nor to bind, he was so angry; so on Monday he goes and makes a complaint to the Lord Provost, who sends two officers for Leper, who came immediately. My Lord asked him how he dared to take away the Principal's mutton. Leper replied, 'How dared, your civileers to take away my kail pot? I'm sure there is less sin in making a pot full of kail, than roasting a leg of mutton; law makers should not be law breakers, so demand justice on the civileers.' The Provost asked him what justice he would have. Says he,