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knowing he was to get but ſome dirty bed, as the cows and the people lived all in one apartment, he chuſed rather to go home; and knowing the moon was to riſe a little after midnight, they ſat long by the fire, and told them many a fine ſtory to drive away the time, and bade the wife go and make their bed, to ſee how it might be; to ſave candle ſhe made it in the dark, directly on 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 up 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 round, which ſet the wale cows in the houſe a roaring out murder, in their own tongue! The wife ran to the bed above the goodman, and the whole family cried out, not knowing what it was, but L der 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