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12 got a hearty 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, like a mile out of town, and give her a walk, and he would stay at home, and study a remedy for her disorder.—Away they both goes; but as she was always complaining for want of health, and that she was very weak, she cried frequently out, O! 'tis a crying sin to take a woman in my condition out o'er a door. During their absence, Leper goes and searches he 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, and she was exceedingly distressed as a woman could be, and cried out it was a horrid thing to take her out of the house. The taylor seeing her so bad, thought she would have died, ran as fast as he could for a dram, but she in her hypocrisy pretended she could not take it, and called on him to help her to bed, into which he lays her; he was not well gone