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in her keeping; which Leper was sorry for. It so happened on a day, that the tailor had 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 ter- der 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 disord- er. -Away they both go; 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 Cake a woman in my condition out o'er & door. During her absence, I eper goes and searches the bed, and below the bol- ster he gets a bottle of rare whisky, of which he takes a hearty pull, and then p-- in it to make it up; gets a half- pennyy worth of snuff, and puts it in also shakes all together, and so sets it in it's 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