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mutton; Leper ſays, "My dear, will ye go and bring a pint of ale, and I'll turn the ſpit 'till ye come back?”. The laſs was no ſooner gone, than he runs away with the leg of mutton, which ſerved his lads and him for their ſupper. When the Principal came home, he was neither to bin nor haud he was ſo angry. So, on Monday, he goes and makes complaint to the Lord Provoſt, who ſends two officers for Leper, who brought him immediately. My Lord aſked him, “How he dared to take away the Principal's mutton? Leper replied. "How came your Civileers to take away my kail-pot? I am ſure there's leſs ſin in making a potfull of kail, than roaſting a leg of mutton, Law makers ſhould not be law-breakers; ſo I demand juſtice on the Civileers." The Provoſt aſked him, "What juſtice he would have? Says he, "Make them carry the pot back again; and as for he Principal, a leg of mutton won't make him and me fall out." So they were forced to carry the pot back, and Leper cauſed the boys to huzza after then in diſgrace.

There was a barber which always plagued Leper, calling him a Prick the Louſe; Leper reſolved to be even with him; ſo he goes and buys three keep heads, sand ſends, for the barber, and told him that there were three Southland gentlemen comer to his houſe, who wanted to be ſhaved, and he aſſured