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EPER'S Landlady became very harſh to his Maſter, and very often abuſed him exceeding ſore with both tongue and hands, and always chided upon him for more money, and to have all the money her keeping, which Leper was very ſorry for. It ſo happened on a day, after the Taylor had got a hearty drubbing with tongue and tongs, that he pouch'd his thimble, and was going to make a Queen of her? when ſhe ſaw that, the cried out, will ye leave me, a poor tender, dying woman!' But Leper knowing the cauſe of her curſed ill-nature better than his Maſter did, advised him to take her on a fine day, like a mile out of town, and give her a walk, and he would ſtay at home, and ſtudy a remedy for her diſorder.—— Away they both goes, but as ſhe was always complaining of her health, and that the was very weak; ſhe cry'd out frequently, ' O it is a crying ſin to take a woman in my condition out o'er a door' During their abſence, Leper goes and ſearches her bed, and below the bolſter he gets a bottle of rare whiſky, of which he takes a hearty pull, and then piſſes in it to make it up again, gets a halfpenny worth of ſnuff and puts it in alſo, ſhakes all together, and ſo ſets it in its place again. Home they came again, and ſhe was exceedingly diſtreſſed as a woman could be, and cry'd out, 'It was a horrid thing to take her out of a houſe'. The taylor ſeeing her ſo bad, thought ſhe would have died, and ran as faſt as he could and brought