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of his trace on his finger ends as he might in different whether he staid with his mas- ter or not : his mistress gave him but lit- file meat when he wrought at home, so he liked 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 tho' flesh was boiled in the pot, there was done for poor Leper and his master, but a little bit on Sun- days, and all the bones were kept and put in the pot, to make the broth through the week. Ieper 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 af- ter work, he steals out a pan, cats a piece desh out of a dead borse, and then goes a' lime lim, and boils it ; next day his agter being from home, his lanalady end in hring in the house, after she had set odl'tha pot as usual, and takes cat her bit of seed beef, pre sucs out for konse time, and then comes in, saying, the minister's Saas is wishing to see you, to go directly azd speak to her mistress. Off she goes la all laste, Leper ring and takes away