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 ( 12 ) frequently, o it is a crying fin, to take a Conan in any condition out o'er. a door. During thcir abſence, Leper goes and ſearch- és her bed, and beiow. the bolfier kc gets a bottle of rare whiſky, of which lie takes a hearty pull, and then piſſes in it, to make it'up again; gets a halfpenny worth of ſnuff, and puts it inalſo, ſhakes all together, and then fets ic, in its place again. Home they cane again, and ſhe was as exceedingly ditrciled as a woman could be, and cry d out, it was a horrid thing to take her out o' a Brouſe. l'he laylor feeiog lige ſo bad, thought sie wonld have died, and ran as faſt as he could, and brought her a dra.n; but ſhe, in her lypecrily, pretended Me cculd not take it, and dekred hiu to help her to her bed. Into Scr bed he lays lier; and he was not well: gone, untii fie fall to her bottle, taking two or three hearty gluts: then fha roars out tür- tier, for the was poiſoned, ſhe was poifored! Rocking and parging bezao, and the neigi- bours were cailed in: the leaves her blood en poor Teper, and tells how luck an honeft woinan brought her ae bottle as another was- done, and the murdering lown had ſtole it, and put in a bottle of poiſon infiead of it. Ceper took to his heels, but was purſued and carried beforcia Juſtice of Peace, where he cold what he had done, which made the. Joffice laugh heartily at the joke, and the taylor's wife was well'purged, both from her feared ficknes, lazines, and curfed ill-