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23 Principal's mutton? Leper repHed, ‘How came your civileers to take away my kail pot? I’m sure there is less sin in making a pot full of kail, than roasting a leg of mutton, law makers should not be law breakers, so I demand justice on the civileers!’ The provost asked him what justice he would have? says he, Make them carry the pot back again; and to the Principal, a leg of mutton won’t make him and me fall out; so they were forced to carry the pot back, and Leper caused the boys to huzza after them to their disgrace.

There was a barber who always plagued Leper, and called him prick-the-louse. Leper resolved to be even with him, so he goes and buys three sheep heads, and sends for the barber, and told him that there were three fine Southland gentlemen just come to his house, who much wanted to be shaved, and he assured him he would receive sixpence for each one of them; — this good news made the shaver send for a dram. Leper was still praising them for quiet good natured gentlemen, so Leper takes him to the bed where the sheep-heads lay covered, and desired him to awaken them, for they would not be angry, or say an ill word to him; the barber lifts the covering, and sees the sheep heads, runs out cursing and swearing, and Leper crying after him, sheep-head barber.

The barber resolved to be revenged on Leper, so when he was shaving Mess John, he tells him that Leper was the drunkenest fellow in his parish: so Mess John warns him to the session. Leper comes, and says. What do you want with me, sir? Come away, Leper, says Mess John, I hear a bad report of you; Me sir, I am sure they were