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 15 His houſe, no body being at home but a laſs roaſting a leg of mutton; Leper ſays: My dear, will you go and bring a pint of ale, and I'll turn the ſpit until you come back, the laſs was no ſooner gone, than he runs away with the leg of mutton, which served his lads and him for their ſupper. When the Principal came home, he was neither to bin nor ha'd, he was ſo angry; ſo on Monday he goes and makes complaint to the Lord Provoſt, who ſends two officers for Leper, who came immediately. My Lord asked him, How he dared to take away the Principal's mutton? Leper replied, How came your Civileers to take away my kail pot? I am ſure, there is leſs ſin in making a pot-full of kail, then roaſting a leg of mutton, Law-makers ſhould not be law-breakers, ſo I demand juſtice on the Civileers; the Provoſt aſked him, what juſtice he would have? ſays he, Make them carry the pot back again; as for the Principal, a leg of mutton won't make him and me all out: ſo they were forced to carry the pot back, and Leper cauſed the boys to huzza after them to their diſgrace.

There was a Barber which always plagued Laper, calling him a Prick-the-Louſe; Leper reſolved to be even with him, ſo he goes and buys three ſheep heads, and ſends for the Barber and told him, that there were three Southland gentleman come to his houſe, who wanted to be ſaved, and he aſſured him he would receive ſixpence for each one of them, this good news made the ſhaver ſend for a dram; Leper was ſtill praiſing them for quiet good natured gentlemen, ſo Leper takes him to the bed where the ſheep-heads lay covered, and desired him to waken them, for they would not be angry, or ſay an ill word to him, the Berber lifts the covering and ſees the ſheep-heads, runs out curlſng and ſvearing, and Leper crying after him, Sheep head-Barber.