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 nature should come to hear of it, and follow after us.

In a few days thereafter we came to an alehouse in a muir, far distant from any other, it being a sore day of wind and rain, we could not travel, but were obliged to stay there; and the house being very thsongthrong [sic], we could get no bed but the servant lassesslasses [sic], which we were to have for a penny worth of pins and needles, and she was to lie with her master and mistress But as we were going to bed, in comes three Highland drovers on their way from England; the landlord told them, that the beds were all taken up but one, that two chapmen were to lie in; one of them swore, his broad sword should fail him if a chapman lay there that night. They took our bed, and made us sit by the fire all night; I put on a great many peats, and when the drovers were fast asleep, I put on a big brass pan full of water, and boiled their brogues therein for the space of half an hour, then lays them as they were, every pair by themselves: so when they rose, every one began to chide another, saying, “Hup, pup, ye sheeing a prog;” for not one of them