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11                     Sheffery having but a sorry, lodging, and a turbulent bed-fellow, took no                     rest at all, the old woman waked about midnight, fell into discourse and said, husband, what if the young man fall in love with our sow, and forthwith get our good will to be married? Why, quoth the old man, I shall not be                     against her preferment, it they like each other. Ah! but husband, she has been an old servant, and If ever she goes, I hope you will bestow something upon her. Well, well, wife, I shan't                     be backward for ten or twenty pounds, I will bestow, if the man be deserving. Sheffery, minding their discourse, arose and went to the carrot field, and pul- led some up, and brought them to the sow, giving her plentifully to eat, then tied the rest about his middie, under- neath his coat; and going into the house to return thanks for his nights lodgings, the sow having tasted the carrots, raved as tho' she would have torn down the sty, longing for more carrots; the old woman hearing the Sow rave, cried out to her husband, what is the matter with our sow? quoth Sheffery, hur can tell best what