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 21 Puff and blow, two civileers, having more nzeal than knowledge, came upon him. and said, -What's the matter, sir, you go not to the kirk? Leper replied, I can reading my hook and cooking my pot, which I think is a work of necessity. Then says the one to the other, don't 23wer that graceless fellow, we'll make him appear before his betters; 'so they took the kail pot, and puts a staff through the bool, and bears it to the Clerk's Chamber. Leper, who was never at a doss for invention, goes to the Principal of the College's house, no body being at home but a liss roasting a leg of mutton; Leper says, my dear, will you gº and bring me a drink of ale, and I'll turn the spit till you come back. The lass was no sooner gone, than he runs away with the leg of mutton, which served his lads and him for their supper. When the Principle came home, he was neither to head nor to biod he was to angry ; to on Monday as goes and makes complaint to the Lord Provost, who sends two off- bers for Leper, who came immediately. My Lord asked him how he dared to take away the Principal's mutton? Lep- ter replied, how dered your civileers come