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beef, leaving the wives to doctor his land lady's doup as they pleased ; he still denied the doing of it, and his master believed it might happen accidently but he Housie was ve ry often to be had, before the hole was to heal again ; and his landlay by eating of the horse beef took a loathing; at flesh, fo Leper and his master got all the beef to eat ev arter and his landlady turned one of the kindest mistresses a prentice could wish for.

There was a neighbour wife on which Le- per used to phy tricks some times for which she came and complained to his master and got him severely beaten several times Le- per resolved to be revenged on her, so one day he came to the backside of her house (no body being within but herself and to up a big one in runs it along the rough wall with all his his force, which roared like thunder in the inside of the house and so frighted the wife that she thought the house was tumbling down about her ears, upon which she ran-out, and sat down at a dis- tance, looking when the house would fall down, til her husband came home to when she told the above story. “ thou daft *** " pie," said he, “ the house will stand there " hundred years," so by his persuasion they both went into the house, Leper knowing they were both in) Comes back and plays the same trick over again. which frighted the goodman also so much that he cried out