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15 In her keeping, which Leper was sorry for. It so happened on a day that the tailor had got a drubbing both with tongue and tongs, that he pouched his thimble, and was going to make a queen of her; when she saw that, she cried out, O! will you leave a poor tender dying woman. But Leper, knowing the cause of her ill nature better than his master did, advised him to take her, on a fine day, about a mile out of the town, and give her a walk, and he would stay at home and study a remedy for her disorder — Away they both went, but as she was complaining for want of health, and that she was very weak, she cried frequently out, O! ’tis a crying sin to Lake a woman in my condition out o’er the door. During their absence, Leper goes and searches her bed, and below the bolster he gets a bottle of rare whisky, of which he takes a hearty pull, and then pisses in it to make it up, gets a halfpenny worth of snuff, and puts it in also, shakes all together, and so sets it in its place again — Home they came,