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 ( 18 ) mutton; Leper fays, " My dear will ge go «s' and bring a pint of ale, and I'll turn the 6. fpit 'till ye come back?" , The laſs was no ſooner gone, 'thas he runs away with the leg of mutton, which ſerved his lads and 'hin. for their fupper. When the Principal came home, he was neither to bin nor haud, he was ſo angry. So, on Monday, he goes and makes a complaint to the Lord Provost, who ſends two officers for Leper, who brought him immediately. My Lord aked him, “ How he dared to take away the Principals "mutton?". Leper replied, “How came your Civileers to take away my kail-pot? “ I am-fure there's leſs fin in making a pot. 6 full of kail, than roafting a leg of mutton. « Law-makers ſhould not be law-breakers; "-"s fo I demand juſtice on the Civileers.".. The Provoſt aſked him, " What juſtice he “ would have? Says he, “ Make them carry " the pot back again; and as for the Princi: “pal, a leg of mutton won't make him and fe me fall.out.” So they were forced to: carry the,pot' back, and Leper cauſed the boys to huzza after them in diſgrace. There was a barber which always plagued. Leper, calling him a Prick the Loufe; Leper reſolved to be even with him ; fo he goes and buys three ſheep.heads, and ſends for the barber, and told him, that there were three Southland, gentlemen came to his houſe, who wanted to be faved, and he affured