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(23) each one of them;- this good news made the shaver send for a dram; Leper was still praising them for quiet good natured gentlemen, so Leper takes him to the bed where the sheep-beads lay covered, and desired him to awaken them for they would not be angry, or say an ill word to him; the barber lifts the covering and sees the sheep-heads runs out cursing and swearing, & Leper crying after him, sheep-head-barber.

The barber resolved to be revnged on Leper, so when he was shaving Mess John he tells him that Leper was the drunkenest fellow in his parish ; so Mess John warns him to the session ; Leper comes and says what do you want with me Sir? Comeaway Leper, says Mess John, I hear a bad report of you; Me Sir ! I am sure they were not my friends that told you that.- Indeed, I am informed you are a drunkard ;-I a drunkard! - You have not a soberer man in your parish : Stop Sir, I will tell you how I lead my life- in the morning I take a choppin of ale and a bit of bread ; that I call my morning; for breakfast I generally take a herring and a choppin of ale, for I cannot sup brose like my lads; the herring