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 13 the wife go and make their bed to ſee how it might be; to ſave candle ſhe made it in the dark, directly in the floor behind where they ſat, ſhaking down two bottles of ſtraw: a calf which chanced to be lying on that ſpot, and which the wife did not notice, was covered up with the ſtraw, and the bed clothes ſpread over all The moſt of the family being gone to bed, the wife told them ſeveral times to go to bed alſo: but Leper knowing of the calf, ſaid, I'll make my bed come to me, on which the wife began to pray for herſelf, and all that was in the houſe; ſo ap he gets his elwand, and gives a ſtroke on the bed, which cauſed the brute to get up, and not ſeeing where to go, it fell a crying, and turning around, which ſet the whole cows in the houſe a roaring out murder in their own tongue, the wife ran to the bed above the good man, and the whole family cried out, not knowing what it was, but Leper and his two lads whipp'd the blankets off the brute, and it ran in amongſt the cows unperceived, then Leper lighted a candle, and all of them got out of bed, paid Leper for his work, and more if he pleaſed, and begged him to go away, and take the devil with him. So home he went, but never was employed by that wife more.

Leper had a deal of the beſt cuſtomers, both in town and country; ſo one time he had occaſion to go to the pariſh of Inchinan to make a wedding ſuit for a gentleman; after they were finiſhed, he asked drink-money to his lads, which the gentleman refuſed: Leper reſolved to be even with him, ſo goes up do the hay-loft where the groom ſlept, and takes his ſtockings, breeches and jacket, ſews them altogther, and ſtuffs them full of hay, makes a head, puts rope about the neck, and hangs it on a tree opposite to the Laird's window, then goes to the Laird and tells him that his groom had hanged himſelf