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 Leper being resolved to revenge again. his miſtreſs, for her thia kail, no kitchen, and litele bread; for tho' fel was boiled in the pot, pone for poor Ieper and luis mafier, but a little bit on Sabbaths, and all the bones were kept, and put in the pot, to make the broth thru the week, Leper perceived always when ſhe took off the pot, the cornec her back to them and took out the Aeſh, and ſet it on a fhelf within her own bed; one night after work, he fteals out a pas, cuts a piece of fleſh out of a dead horſe, then goes to a lime-kils and boils it; next day his maſter being from home, his laodlady und him being in the houſe, afrec, fhe had ſet of the pot, as uſual, and taking cui ise Ek of good-beef, he goes out for ſome time, and then comes in, ſaying, The min. s fler's laſs is wanting you to go directly Rss and ſpeak to her mifsefs:" Away ſhe goes in all hafte, Leger runs and takes a way her bit of good, beef, and lays down his forfe. fleld, and knowing.ſhe would foon return in a paſſion and fit down with a foffe ia her cuſhion'd chair, as ſhe uſed, he takes a great big prin and ftaps it fraight up thro' the cuſhion, with its head on the chair, and the point to her 'back-side: In fhe comes in a rage. and down fre fits with all her weight on the prin-point, and there roars out,- " Murder, murder, for th: was flícke: thro s-the a-fe," the neighbour came running in, and Leper got ſafe ous, with his bit of good A