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 ( 17): Satan! - The lad íays. What's the matter, Sir? What's the matter? Did not you hang yourſelf this morning ? Lord forbid! faid the lad: i he Laird ſays, If thou be an earthly creature, take that tankard and drink: Which he did. l'hen ſays he to his maſter, Leper called me up, and ſaid you wanted his in ail hafte. Ho ho! ſays the Laird, I find out the ftory now; if I had Leper, I would Tun my ſword thro' him. But Leper, betore that, was away för Glaſgow with the meal. Leper was in uſc to give his lads their Sunday's ſupper, which obliged him to ſtay from the ķirk in the afternoon, he having neither wife nor ſervant maid. So, upon a Sunday afternoon, when at home. cooking bis pot, Joha Mucklercheeks and James Puff- and-blaw, two Civilcers, having more zeal than knowledge, came upon him, and ſaid, What's the matter, Sir, you go not to the Kirk? Leper replied, I am reading my book, and cooking my poi, which' I think
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one to the other, Don't anſwer the grace- leſs fellow, we'll make him appear before his betters. So they took off the kail-pot, and puts a ſtaff thro' the bowls, and bears it to the Clerk's Chamber. Leper, who was never at a loſs for invention, goes to the Principa! of the College's houſe, no body teing at homc but a la s roaſting a leg of