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beef, ieaving the wives to doctor his land lady's doup as they plealed; he ſtill denied the deing of it, and his maſter believed it migh happen accidentally. but the Houdie was very often to be had, before the hole was go heal again; and his landlady by eating often horſe beef, took a loathing at fleſh, ſo Leper and his maſter got all she beef to eat ever after and his landlady turned one of the kindeſt miſtreſſes a prentice could wiſh for.

There was a neighbour-wife on which Leper uſed to play tricks ſometimes, for which ſhe came and complained to his maſter and got him ſeverely beaten ſeveral times Leper reſolved to be revenged on her, 1 one day he came to the backſide of her houſe (no body being within but herſelf,) and took up a big ſtone, and runs it along the roug wall with all his force, which roared lik thunder, in the inſide of the houſe, and frighted the wife, that ſhe thought the houd was tumbling down about her ears! Upo which ſhe ran out, and ſat down at a diſtance looking when the houſe would fall down, ti her huſband came home, to whom ſhe told the above ſtory: Hout, daft taupie, ſaid he the houſe will stand theſe hunder years.- So, by his perſuaſion, they both went in the bruſe. Leper knowing they were both in comes back, and plays the ſame trick ove- again; which frighted the goodman alſo much, that he cried out, Run Maggy, run