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Leper’s fame, for being one of the wisest, most couragious taylors that was in all the kingdom; and many shaking heir beads, said, ‘ It was a pity be was a taylor but a " captain or general of an army, as the de- vil could not fear him,’'

After this, a farmer in the neighbour- hood, hearing the fame of Leper, how he had frighted the de'il fra' being a bell man, sent for him to an ale house, and drink with him very heartily, and told him, that he was sadly born down with the spirit of jealousy against his wife on suspicion of being too free with a servant lad she bad nefor and if he would keep it secret and learn him how to find it out, he would give his mother a load of meal to which eoer and him a- grees, he gave the poor or supposed cuckold in- structions how to behave, so home he goes and feigns himself to be very sick and every day worse and worse, taking death to him, blesses his three small children, and char- ges his wife not to marry until his children could do something for themselves: This hy- pocritical woman takes the roaring a ba, Marry! she would never marry! No, no there should never man by by her side, nor Then he acted the dying man as well as pos- sible he could, the neighbours were called in, ‘ and he s fair o’erseen " as the old say- ing is, "before good neighbours,” the for-
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