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 goes to being from home, his landlady and him being in the houſe, after the bad ſet off the pot as uſual, and taken out her bit of good beef, he goes out for ſome time, and then comes in, ſaying, The miniſter's laſs is wanting you to go directly and ſpeak to her mil- treſs, away the goes in all haſte, Leper runs and takes away her bit of good beef, and lays down his horſe- fleſh, and knowing ſhe would ſoon return in a paſſion, and ſit down with a ſoffe in her cuſhion'd chair as ſhe uſed, he takes a great big prin and ſlaps it ſtraight up through the cuſhion, with its head on the chair and the point to her back ſide; in ſhe comes in a rage, and down ſhe ſits with all her weight on the prin-point, and there roars out, Murder, murder, for ſhe was ſticket through the aſe, the neighbours came running in, and Leper got 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 maſter believed it might happen accidentally, but the Houdie was very oft to be had before the hole was got heal again; and his landlady by eating of that horſe-beef, took a loathing at fleſh, ſo Leper and his maſter got all the beef to eat ever after, and his land- lady turned one of the kindeſt miſtreſſes a prentice could wiſh for.

There was a neighbour wife or which Leper uſed to play tricks ſometimes, for which the came and complained to his maſter, and got him ſeverely beaten ſeveral times; Leper reſolved to be revenged on her, ſo one day he came to the backſide of her houſe, (no body being within but herſelf), and took up a big ſtone, and runs it along the rough wall with all his force, which roared like thunder in the inſide of the houſe, and frighted the wife ſo, that ſhe thought the