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(13) manners; she domineered over her fellow servants in a tyrannical manner: Leper resolved to mortify her pride ; so he finds an ant's nest, and takes their white eggs grinds them to a powder, and puts them into the dish her supper sowns was to be put in. After she had taken her super, as she was covering the table, the inmoke powder began to operate, and she let a great fart, well done Margaret, says the Laird, your arse would take a cautioner; before she got out at the chamber door she lets fly another crack; then she goes to order her fellow servant to give the Laird his supper, but before she could give the necessary directions, she gave fire again, which set them all a laughing; she runs into a room herself, and there she played away her own gun battery so fast, that you would have thought she had been besieging the Havannah. The Laird and his Lady came to hear the fun, they were like to split their sides at proud Maggy. So 'next morning she left her place to the great satisfaction of all her fellow-servants.