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 ( 15 ) knowing he was to get but fome dirty bed, as the cows and the people lived all in one apartment, Lechuſed Father to go home ; and knowing the moon was to riſe a little after -midnight, they fat long by the fire, and told them'many a fine ftory to drive away the time, and bade the wife go and make their bed, to ſee how it might be; to ſave candle fhe made it in the dark, directly on the floor behind where they fat, fhating down two bottles of fraw : A calf, which chanced to be lying on that ſpet, and which the wife did not notice, was covered up with the straw, and the hed-clothes ſpread ever all. The moſt of the family being gone to bed, the wife told them ſeveral times to go to bed alſo; but' Leper knowing of the calf, faid, I'll make my bed come to me; 'on which the wife began to pray for herſelf, and all that was in the houſe fo up he gets his eiwand, and gives a Arcke on the bed, which caused the brute to get up. and not ſeeing where to go, it fell a-crying, and turning round, which ſet the whole cows in the houſe a roar- ing out murder, in their own tongue ! the wife ran to the bed above the goodman, and - 'the whole family. cried out, not knowing what it was, but Leper and his two lads. whipp's the blankets of the brute, and it ran in amorgit the cow's ur perceived; then Leper lighted a candle, and all of them. 'got out of bed, paid Leper for his work, and more if he pleaſed, and begged him to go