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work stand for &e day, when your daught- ers are baith lying corpse. My bairns corpse! I am certain they went to bed hale and fair last night. But I tell ye, ways the other, the dead hell has been through warning the folks to the burial: then the mother cries cut, the villain! O the villain! that he did not send me word.-So they both ran, and the moth- er as soon as she entered the house, Aiss to the bed, crying, O my bairns, my dear bairns; on which the sluts rose up in a consternation, to the great surprise of the beholders, and the great mortification of the girls, who thought shame to set their noses out of doors, and to the great di- version of the whole town. Leper and his master went to a gentle- man's house to work, where there was a saucy house keeper, who had more ignor- ence and pride than good sense and mar- ners; she domineered over her fellow ser- vants in a tyrannical manner. Leper re- solved to mcılıfy her pride; so he finds an ant's nest, find takes their white eggs, grinds then to a powder, and put them into the dish her supper sowens was to be put in. After she had taken her sur- per, as she was covering the table, the