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Leper being refolved on revenge againſt his miſtreſs, for her thin kail, no kitchen; and little bread; for tho? fleſh was boiled in the pot, none for poor Leper and his maſter, but a lfttle bit on Sabbaths, and all the bones were kept, and put in the pot, to make the broth thro' the week. Leper perceived always when the took off the pot, she turned her back to them and took out the fleſh, and ſet it on a ſhelf within her own bed; one night after work, he ſteals out a pan, cuts a piece of fleſh out of a dead horſe, then goes to a lime-kiln and boils it; next day his maſter being from home, his landlady nd him being in the houſe, after ſhe had et off the pot as uſual, and taken out her bit of good beef, he goes out for ſome time, and then conies in, ſaying, "The miniſter's laſs is wanting you to go directly and ſpeak to her miſtreſs:” Away ſhe goes n all hafte, Leper runs and takes away her bit of good beef, and lays down his horſe-fleſh, and knowing, ſhe would ſoon return n a paſſion, and fit down with a ſoffe in er cuſhion'd chair, as ſhe uſed, he takes great big prin and flaps it ſraight up thro'. she cuſhion, with its head on the chair and he point to her back-ſide: In ſhe comes in rage, and down the frs with all her weight n, the prin-point, and there roars out, Murder, murder, for ſhe was ſticket thro'. the a-fe," the neighbours came running in, nd Leper got ſafe out, with his bit of good