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flats of daughters, that would do nothing but ly in their bed in the morning till, as the ſaying is, The ſun was like to burn a hole in their backſides. The old woman being at this time buſy bleaching ſome cloths, was very early at werk in the mornings, and Leper's patience was worn out with the lazineſs of his two ſiſters, and he reſolved to play a trick on them, for their reformation: So he goes and gets a mortcloth and ſpreads upon the bed above them, and tends the dead-bell thro' the town, inviting the people to his ſiſters' burial the next day at four o'clock afternoon, for they had died ſuddenly. This brought all the neighbour-wives in, who one after another liſted the mortcloth, and laid, with a great ſigh, They're gone to their reſt, a ſudden call indeed! Their aunt bearing of this ſudden news, came running in all haſte, and coming through the green where their mother was at work, who was ignorant of the ſtory, live cries cut, Fy upon you, woman, fy upon you! What's the mater, ſiſter? ſays the mother. Says the aunt, I think ye may let your work ſtand for a day; when your daughters are lying corpſe.- My bairns corpſe ſays ſhe; I am ſure they went to bed heal and fear laſt night. But I tell you, ſay's the her ſiſter the dead-tell has been through the town, warning the folk to the burial! Then the mother cried out the villain! O the villain, that he did not ſend me word! So