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her one gun battery ſo faſt, as ſhe had been fieging the Havannah. The Laird and the Lady came to hear the ſun, and were like to ſplit their ſides at proud Maggy's cannonading. So next morning ſhe left the place, to the great joy of her fellow ſervants.

The End of the First Part.

PART II.

LEPER'S Landlady became very, harſh to his maſter, and very often abuſed him exceeding fore, with both tongue and hands, and always chided upon him for ſome more money, and to have all the money in her keeping, which vexed Leper very much.-

It ſo happened one day, after the taylor had got a hearty drabbing with tongue and tongs, that he puch'd his thimble, and was going to make a Queen of her! When ſhe ſaw that, ſhe cried out, "O 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, about a mile, out of the town, and give her a walk, and he would ſtay at home, and ſtudy a remedy for leer, diſorder.-Awaa they both went, but as ſhe was always complaining of her health, and that ſhe was very weak, the cry'd out.