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3 To get him kept from mischief, she prevailed with a tailor to take him as an apprentice; he settled, and was very peaceable for some time, until he got so much of his trade on his finger ends as might make him pass for a journey man, and then he was inci-litrent whe- ther he said with his master or not. His ni tress gave him but very little meat when le wrought at home, so he liked best to be in other houses, where he got both meat and diversion. Leper was resolved on revenge a- gainst his mistress for her thin kail no kitchen, and lide bread; for though flesh was boiled in the por, there was none for poor Loper and his master, but a little bit on Sunday's, and then all the bones were kept and put in the pot, to make the broth through the week. per perceived that when she took off the pot, she always turned her back to them and took out the flush, and set it on a shelt in her own bed-room. One night, after work, he steals cut a pan, cuts a piece of flesh out of a dead horse, and then