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20 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 did not notice, was covered with the straw, and the bed clothes spread 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, wbich caused the brute to rise, and not seeing where to go, it fell a crying, and turned round, which set the whole house a roaring out murder in their own tongue. The goodwife ran to the bed above the goodman, and the whole family cried out, not knowing what it was; but Leper and his two lads whipt off the blankets, and the brute ran in among the rest unperceived; then Leper lighted a candle, and all of them got out of bed, paid ' Leper for his work, and more if he pleased, and begged him to go away, and