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her bits of good meat, and lays down his horse flesh; and knowing she would re- turn in a passion, and sit down with a soss in her cushioned chair, as she used, he takes a large pia, and stays it straight in through the cushion, with its head on the chair, and the point to her t--. So in she comes in a rage, and down she sits with all her weight on the pin point, and then roars out murder ! murder! for she was stinket in the a-: the neighbours came running in, and Leper went out with his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to doctor his landladly's doup, as they pleas- ed; he still denied the doing of it, & his master believed it might happen acciden- tally, but the houdie was very oft to be kad before it was got hale again ; and his landlady by eating of that horse beef, took such a loathing at flesh that Leper and his master got all the beef ever after, and his landlady turned one of the kindest mis- dresses a prentice could wish for. There was a neighbour wife on whom Leper used to play tricks sometimes, for which she came and complained to his master and had him severely beaten sev- eral times; Leper resolved to be revenged on her; so one night he care to the back-