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 3 and all the bones were kept, and put in the pot, to make the broth thro' the week. Leper perceived always when ſhe took off the pot, ſhe turned her back to them and took out the fleſh, and ſet it on a ſhelf within her own beds, one night after work, ſhe ſteals out a pan, cuts a piece of fleſh out of a lead horſe, then goes to a lime kiln and boils it next day his maſter being from home, his landlady, and him being in the houſe, after ſhe had ſet off the pot as uſual, and taken out her bit of good beef, he goes out for ſome time, and then comes in, ſaying, The miniſter's laſs is wanting you to go directly and ſpeak to her miſtreſs, away ſhe goes in all haſte, Leper runs and takes away her bit of good beef, and lays down his horſe-fleſh, and knowing ſhe would ſoon return in a paſſion, and ſit down with a ſoſſe in her cuſhion'd chair as he uſed, he takes a great big prin and ſtaps it ſtraight up through the cuſhion, with its head on the chair and the point to her back ſide: in ſhe comes in a rage, and down he fits with all her weight on the prin point, and there roars out, Murder, murder, for ſhe was ſticket through the a-ſe the neighbours came running in, and Leper got out with his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to doctor his landlady's doup as they pleaſed, he ſtill denied the doing of it, and his maſter believed it might happen accidentally, but the was very often to be had before the was got heal again; and his landlady by eating of that horſe-beef, took a loathing at fleſh, ſo Leper and his maſter get all the beef to eat ever after, and his landlady turned one of the kindest miſtreſſes a apprentice could wiſh for.

There was a neighbour wife on which Leper uſed to pay tricks ſometimes, for which ſhe came and complained to his maſter, and got him ſeverely beaten ſeveral times: Leper reſolved to be revenged