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 she would return in a passion, and sit down with a soss in her cushioned chair, as she used, he takes a large pin and staps it straight through the cushion, with its head on the chair, and the point upwards. So in she comes in a rage, and down she sits with all her weight on the pin point; and she roars out 'murder! murder!' for she was sticket; the neighbours came running in, and Leper went out with his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to doctor his land-lady 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 back of the house (no one being in but herself), and took up a big stone and runs along the