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sits with all her weight on the pin point; and she roars out murder! murder! for she was sticket in the a-e; the neighbours came running in, and Leper went out with his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to doctor his landlady's doup, as they pleased; he still denied the doing of it, and his master believed it might happen accidentally, but the houdie was very oft to be had before it was got hale again; and his landlady by eating of the horse beef took such a loathing at flesh, that Leper and his master got all the beef ever after, and his landlady turned one of the kindest mistresses a prentice could wish for.

There was a neighbour wife on whom Leper used to play tricks sometimes, for which she came and complained to his master and had him severely beaten several times. Leper resolved to be revenged on her, so one night he came to the backside of the house (no one being in but herself), and took up a big stone and runs along the rough wall with all his strength, which roared like thunder in the inside of the house, and frighted the wife so that she thought the house was tumbling down about her ears, and she ran out and sat down at a distance, looking every minute when the house would fall down, till her husband came home and persuaded her to go in, to whom she told