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 best to be in other houses, where he got meat and diversion.

Leper being resolved on revenge against his mistress for her thin kail, no kitchen, and little bread; for though flesh was boiled in the pot, none was for poor Leper and his master, but a little bit on Sundays, and all the bones were kept and put in the pot, to make the broth through the week. Leper perceived, always when she took off the pot, she turned her back and took out the flesh, and set it on a shelf in her own bed-room; one night, after work, he steals out a pan, cuts a piece of flesh out of a dead horse, and then goes to a lime kiln, and boils it; next day, his master being from home, his landlady and he being in the house, after she had set the pot as usual, and taken out her bit of good beef, he goes out for some time and then comes in, saying, ‘the minister’s lass is wishing to see you, to go directly and speak to her mistress.’ Off she goes in all haste; Leper runs and takes away her bit of good meat, and lays down his horse flesh; and knowing she would return in a passion, and sit down with a soss [sic] in her cushioned chair, as she used, he takes a large pin and staps [sic] it straight through the cushion, with its head on the chair, and the point to her backside. So in she comes in a rage, and down she