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2 FUN UPON FUN.

PART I.

LEPER'S father lived in a village about six miles from Glasgow, and died when Leper was but very young. he left a widow and three children, two daughters and a son, and Leper being the youngest, was greatly idolized by his mother who was a good soft natured woman, very industrious, and followed the business of bleaching of cloth.

As Leper grew up, he turned a very mischievous boy, playing tricks on the neighbourhood, such as, tying cats to dog's tails, breaking hen's legs, stoping peoples' lumbs or chimney-tops, so that his poor mother was sadly vex'd with complaints against him.

To get him kept from mischief, she prevailed with a taylor to take him an apprentice, he settled and was very peaceable for some time, until he had got so much of the trade on his finger-ends, as he might pass for a journeyman, and then he was indifferent whether he stay'd with his master or not; his mistress gave him very little meat when they wrought at home, so he loved best to be in other homes, where he got both meat and diversion.