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ANECDOTE

Supervisor in danger.

As a Supervisor was making one of his daily visits to a Tan work, and strutting about very Justily, looking and examining every thing with an air of dignified contempt, was straddling among the tan-holes, when unfortunately he plumped into one of them; he roared with all his might, for somebody,to pull him out of this stinking hole. ‘Na, na, Sir,’ says one of the men, ‘We daurna do that; for we daurna,draw a single hide, till we gi’e twal hours notice to the Gauger bodies

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