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(14) PART II

LEPER'S landlady became very harsh. to his master, and very often abused him exceedingly sore with her tongue and hand, and always called upon him for more money, and to have all the money in her keeping, which Leper was sorry. for. It so happened on a day that the taylor had got a hearty drubbing with tongue and tongs, that he pouched his thimble and was going to make a Queen of her; when she saw that, she cried out, O! will you leave a poor, tender, dying woman. But Leper knowing the cause of her ill nature, better than his master did, advised him to take her on a fine day, like a mile out of the town and give her a walk, and he would stay at home and study a remedy for her disorder.-Away they both goes, but as she was always complaining for want of health and that she was very weak, she cried frequently out, O! 'tis a crying sin to take a woman in my condition out o'er a door. During their absence Leper goes and searches her bed, and below the bolster, he gets a bottle of rare whisky, of