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5 and then comes in, saying the minister's lass is wishing to see you, to go directly and speak to her mistress Off and he goes in all haste, Leper runs and takes me way her bits of good meat, and lays own his horse flesh, and knowing she could return in a passion, and sit down with a loss in her cushioned chair, as she sed, he takes a large pin, and staps it straight through the cushion, with its head on the chair and the point to her backside. So in she comes in a rage, and down she sits with all her weight on the bin point, and then roars out murder, murder, for she was sticked in the a-e; the neighbours came running in, and Leper went out with his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to docter his landlady's doup as they pleased; he still denied the doing of it, and his master believed it might happen accidentally, but the houdie was very oft to be had before it was got hale again ; and his landlady by eating of that horse beef, took such a loathing at flesh that Leper and his master got all the beef ever after, and his landlady turned one of the kindest mistresses a prentice could wish for.

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