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4 goes to a lime kiln and boils it: next day, his master being from home, his landlady and him being in the house, after she had set off the pot as usual, and taken out her bit of good beef, he went out for some time, and then came back saying, the minister's lass is wishing you to go directly and speak to her mistress. Off she goes in all haste; Leper runs and takes away her bits of good meat, and lays down his horse flesh; and knowing she would return in a passion, and sit down with a soss in her cushioned chair, as she used, he takes a large pin, and stabs it straight through the cushion, with its head on the chair, and the point to her back- side. So in she comes in a rage, and down she sits with all her weight on the pin point and then roars out, 'Mur- der, murder,' for she was sticket in the a-e ; the neighbours came running in, and Leper went out with his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to doctor his landlady's doup as they pleased. He still denied the doing of it, and his