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 ( 14 ) his roguith'tricks might have done very well. He and his lads. being employed to work in a farmer's houſe, where the goodwife was a great miſer, and not very cleanly in mak: ing ready of meat and fniveld greatly when the ſpoke: In the morning when ſhe. went to make her pottage, ſhe made a faſhion of waſhing the pot, which by ap- pearance, ſeemed to him to be amongit the firſt pots that had been made; then the ſet it down before the fire, till ſhe went to the well; in which time Leper looking into it, fees, two great holes in the bottom fopped with clouts, he takes up his gooſe, and holds it as bigb as his head, then lets it fall into the pot, which knocked out the bottom of it. Preſently in comes the wiſe with the water, and pours it into the pot, which fet all the fire.lide in a dam ; for fi!l as ſhe poured in, it ran out: The wife being short-fighted, or what they call-fand-blind, ſhe looks into the pot, holds up both her hands, and cries, “ The loch preſerve me, firs! for the grip catween the holes is brcken.” Says Leper, the pot was old enough; but do not you ken, that taylor's pottage is heavier than other inen's ? “ Indeed, lad, ſaid ſhe, I believe “ it is ſae; but they ſay ye're a: Warlock, s: it's Wedneſday a' the warld o'er, and a 6 wofu' Wedneſday to me indeed; my pot “ might ba'e lafted me this fifty years, a fae « wad ii e'en." This ſport diverted Leper and his lads thro' the day; and after fupper,