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his roguiſh tricks wight have done very well. He and his lads being employed work in a farmer's houſe, where the goodwife was a great mifer, and not very cleanly in making ready of meat, and ſnivel'd greatly when ſhe ſpoke. In the morning when ſhe went to make their pottage, ſhe made a faſhion of waſhing the pot, which by appearance, ſeemed to him to be amongſt the firſt pots that had been made, then ſhe ſet it down before the fire, till ſhe went to me well, in which time Leper looking into t, ſees two great holes in the bottom ſtopped with clouts, he takes up his gooſe, and hells it as high as his head, then lets it fall into the pot, which knocked out the bottom of t. Preſently in comes the wife with the water, and pours it into the pot, which ſet all the fire-ſide in a dam; for ſtill as the poured in, it ran out: The wife being ſhort-ſighted, or what they call ſand-blind, the looks into the pot, holds up both her hands, and cries, "The loſh preſerve me, ſirs! for the grip atween the holes is broken.” Says Leper, the pot was old enough: but do not you ken, that taylor's pottage is heavier than other men's? "Indeed, lad, ſaid ſhe, I believe it is fae; but they ſay ye're a Warlock, it's Wedneſday a' the warld o'er, and a wofu' Wedneſday to me indeed; my pot might ha'e laſted me this fifty years, a fae wad it e'en." This ſport diverted Leper and his lads thru the day, and after ſupper,