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away, and take the devil with him. So home he went, but never was employed by that wife more.

LEPER had a deal of the beſt cuſtomers, both in town and country. So one time he had occaſion to go to the parish of Inchinah to make a wedding fait for a gentlemanː After they were finiſhed, he asked drink-money to his lads, which the gentleman refuſed: Leper reſolved to be even with him; ſo goes up to the lay-loſt where the groom ſlept, and takes his ſtockings, breeches and jacket, ſews them altogether, and ſtuffs them full of hay, makes a lead, puts a rope about the neck, and hangs it'on a tree oppoſite to the Laird's window, then goes to the Laird, and tells him, that his groom had hanged himſelf, and that if he would open' his window, he would ſee him hanging. The Laird, ſtruck with aſtoniſhment, knew not how to do: Leper adviſe's him to bury him privately. The Laird ſaid, he had not a ſervant he could truſt; ſo begged of Leper to it. Leper refuſed, till the Laird promiſed him a load of meal: Then Leper pulls all the hay out of the groom's clothes, goes and gets his load of meal, and ſends it to Glaſgow; then goed to the groom, and ſays haſtily Lad, thy maſter is wanting tide. So the lad, in a haſte, runs to ſee what his maſter wanted; the Laird no ſooner ſaw him opening the door, than he cry'd out, Avoid thee Satan, avoid thee