Page:Leper the tailor.pdf/4

 Beer, leaving the rives to doctor his land lady.'s doup as they pleaſed; he ſtill denied thi doing of it, and his maſter believed. it migla happen accidentally, but the Houdie wa very often to be had, before the whole was gq: heal again; and his landlady by cating of the horſe-beef, took a loathing at fleſh, .fo Lepe and his maſter got all the beef to eat ever after and his landlady turned one of the kindel zniſtrefies a prentice could wiſh for. There was a neighbour-wife on whic J.sper uſed to play tricks fometimes, fo. which fhe came and complained to his maſter and got him Teverely beaten ſeveral times Leser reſcived to be revenged on her, TQ one day he came to the backſide of her houſe (nobody being within but herſelf,) and tool up a big ſtone, and runs its along the rough wall with all his force, which roared lik bunder in the inſide of the louſe, and frighted the witc, that he ihought the houſe was tumbling down about her ears! Upom svhich the ran out, and ſat down at a diſtance booking when the houſe would fall down. till her huſband canic heme, to whom he told the above ſtory: Hout, daft taupie, ſaid he, the Bosle will fland theſe hunder years.-- So, by his perſualion, they both went into De houſe. Leper knowing they were both in, feones back and plays the fame trick over again, which fighted the goodman alſo, fo inuca, that he cried out, Run, Maggy, run,