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Leper being resolved on revenge against his mistress for her thin kail, no kitchen, and little bread; for tho' flesh was boiled in the pot, none for poor Leper and his mas- ter but a little bit on Sabbath h, and all the bones were kept, and put in the pot, to make the broth thro' the week. Leper perceived always when he took cit the pot, she turn- ed her back to them and took out the flesh, and set it on a shelf within her own bed ; one night after work, he cleans out a pan, cuts a piece of flesh out of a dead horse then 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 srt oft the pots as usual, and taken out her bit of good beef, he goes out for some time, and then comes in, saying "The. mini- sters lass is wanting you to go directly “and speak to her mistress," away she goes in all haste, Leper runs and takes a away her bit of good beef, aid lays down his hors- flesh, and knowing she would soon return in a passion, and sit down with a faffe in her cushioned chair as she used, he takes a great big prin and flaps it straight up thro' 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 our, "Murder, murder for she was sticket thro' 'the arse," the neighours came running and Leper got out with his pit of good

644 SCOTCH CHAPBOOK.—Fun upon Fun : or the Comical Merry Tricks [of] Leper the Taylor. In two parts. 8°. [? Glasgow], 1799.                             4/6