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man to try on a suit of clothes; the mas- ter being obliged to rise, desired the lads to say the grace themselves. Every one refused it, and put it to his neighbour, till Leper undertook it, and said with an audible voice, that the stranger gertle- man night over hear him, as follows: "Och, hoch! we are a parcel of poor beastly bodies, and we are as beastly minded; if we do not work we get noth- is to eat; yet we are always caling and always freting; singing and half starving is like to be our fortune; scartings and scrapings are the most of our mouthfuls We would fain thank thee for our ful- ness, it it were so, but the test of our benefactors are not worthy the acknow- ledging ;-hey, Amen. The gentle- man laughed till his sides were like to burst, and gave Leper half-a-crown to drink. Leper was not long done with his ap- prenticeship till he set up for himself, and got a journeymen and an apprentice, was coming into very good business, and had he restrained his roguish tricks, he might have done very well. He and his lads being employed to work in a farmer's house where in house wife nuts a great