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11 joke, but up he got among them, a deal of people ran for it, and his wife cried out, ‘O, my dear, do you ken me?’ Ay, you base jade and whore, better than ever I did.’ Jumps on the floor, gets his staff and runs after Sandy, and catches him in the fields, a little from the house; — ate and drank with his sister and neighbours who had come to see his corpse: and poor Sandy went home with a skin full of terror, and a sorting of sore bones, took a sore fever, and died a few days after, so he got quit of his cuckolder, and Leper’s mother got her load of meal.

Leper’s mother was a careful industrious wife, but, as the by-word is, ‘a working mother makes a dally daughter,’ and so it happened here, for she had twa idle glaiket sluts of daughters, that would do nothing but lie in their bed in the morning, till, as the saying is, ‘ the sun was like to burn a hole in their backsides.’ The old woman, who was bleaching some cloth, was very early at work in the mornings,