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3 To get him kept from mischief, she prevailed with a tailor to take him as an apprentice; he settled, and was very peaceable for some time, until he got so much of his trade on his finger ends as might make him pass for a journeyman, and then he was indifferent whether he staid with his master or not. His mistress gave him but very little meat when he wrought at home, so he liked best to be in other houses, where he got both meat and diversion.

Leper was resolved on revenge against his mistress for her thin kail, no kitchen, and little bread; for though flesh was boiled in the pot, there was none for poor Leper and his master, but a little bit on Sunday’s, and then all the bones were kept and put in the pot, to make the broth through the week. Leper perceived that when she took off the pot, she always turned her back to them and took out the flesh, and set it on a shelf in her own bed-room. One night, after work, he steals out a pan, cuts a piece of flesh out of a dead horse, and then