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20 him; the barber lifts the covering and sees the sheep heads, run out cursing and swearing, and Leper crying after him, sheep head barber.

The barber reolvedresolved [sic] to be revenged on Leper, so when he was shaving Mess John, he tells him that Leper was the drunkenest fellow in the 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 not my friends that told you that.—Indeed, I am informed you are a drunkard.—I a drunkard, you have not a soberer man in your parish: stop Sir, I will tell you how I lead my life—in the morning I take a choppin of ale and a bit of bread, that I call my morning, for breakfast I generally take a herring and a choppin of ale, for I cannot sup brose like my lads; the herring makes me dry, so at eleven hours I take a pint, and sometimes three choppins; at supper I take a bit of bread and cheese and a pint, and so go to bed. Mess John says, its extravagant Sir, its excessive drinking, I allow you the one half of it for a quarter of a year. Says Leper, I'll try it, Sir, and come back and tell you. At the end of the quarter he draws out his account, and goes? to Mess John, who was sitting with his el-