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 and I’ll turn the ſpit ’till you come back, the laſs was no ſooner gone, than he runs away with the leg of mutton, which ſerved his lads and him for cheir ſup-per. When the Principal came home, he was neither to bin nor ha’d, he was ſo angry; ſo on Monday he goes and makes complaint to the Lord Provoſt, who ſends two officers for Leper, who came immediately. My Lord aſked him, How he dared to take away the Principal’s mutton? Leper replied, How came your Civileers to take away my kail-pot? I am ſure, there is leſs ſin in making a pot-full of kail, than roaſting a leg of mutton, Law-makers ſhould not be law-break-ers, o I demand juſtice on the Civileers; the Provoſt aſked him, what juſtice he would have? ſays he, Make them carry the pot back again; as for the Principal, a leg of mutton won't make him and me fall' out: ſo they were forced to carry the pot back, and Leper cau-ſed the boys to huzza them after them to their diſgrace.

There was a Barber which always plagued Leper, calling him a Prick-the-Looſe; Leper reſolved to be even with him, ſo he goes and buys three ſheep-heads, and fends for the Barber and told him, that there were three Southland gentlemen come to his houſe, who wanted to be ſlaved, and he aſſured him he would re-ceive ſixpence for each one of them, this good news made the ſhaver ſend for a dram; Leper was ſtill praiſ-ing them for quiet good-natured gentlemen, ſo Leper takes him to the bed where the ſheep-heads lay cover-ed, and deſired him to waken them, for they would not be angry, or ſay an ill word to him, the Barber, lifts the covering and ſees the ſheep-heads, runs out curſing and ſwearing, and Leper crying after him, Sheep-head Barber.

The Barber reſolved to be revenged on Leper, ſo