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18 him; but Leper before that was gone for Glasgow with his meal.

Leper was in use to give his lads their Sunday's supper, which obliged him to stay from the kirk in the afternoon, he having neither wife nor servant maid; so one Sunday afternoon as he was cooking his pot, John Mucklecheek, and James Puff-and-blaw, two civileers, having more zeal than knowledge, came upon him, and said,—What's the matter, sir, you go not to the kirk? Leper replied, I am reading my book, and cooking my pot, which I think is a work of necessity. Then says the one to the other, don't answer that graceless fellow, we'll make him appear before his betters; so they took the kail pot, and puts a staff through the bools, and bears it to the Clerk's Chamber. Leper, who was never at a loss for invention, goes to the Principal of the College's house, nobody being at home but a lass roasting a leg of mutton; Leper says, my dear will you go and bring me a drink of ale, and I'll turn the spit till you come back. The lass was no sooner gone, than he runs away with the leg of mutton, which served his lads and him for their supper. When the Principal came home, he was neither to haud nor to bind he was so angry; so on Monday he goes and makes complaint to the