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 not ken the tailors's pottage is heavier than other mens. Indeed lad I believe it, but they say ye're a warlock; its Wednesday all the world, o'er, and a waefu' Wednesday to me indeed, my pot might ha'e served me this fifty year, a sae wed 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 choose 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, directly 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 do not notice was covered with the straw, and the bed clothes spead 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 elwand, 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