Page:Fun upon fun, or, The comical and merry tricks of Leper the tailor (2).pdf/3

3 best to be in other houses, where he got meat and diversion.

Leper being resolved on revenge against his mistress for her thin kail, no kitchen, and little bread; for though flesh was boil'd in the pot, none for poor Leper and his master, but a little bit on Sunday's, and all the bones were kept and put in the pot, to make the broth through the week. Leper perceived always when she took off the pot, she turned her back and took out the flesh, and set it on a shelf in her own bedroom; one night, after work, he steals out a pan, cuts a piece of flesh out of a dead horse, and then goes to a lime kiln, and boils it; next day his master being from home, his landlady and him being in the house, after she had set off the pot as usual, and takes out her bit of good beef, he goes out for some time and then comes in, saying the minister's lass is wishing to see you, to go directly and speak to her mistress. Off she goes in all haste, Leper runs and takes away her bits of good meat, and lays down his horse flesh; and knowing she would return in a passion, and sit down with a soss in her cushioned chair, as she used, he takes a large pin, and staps it straight through the cushion, with its head on the chair and the point to her backside. So in she comes in a rage, and down she sits with all her