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6 Leper used to play tricks sometimes, which she came and complained to master and had him severely beaten several times; Leper resolved to be revenged on her; so one night he came to the backside of the house (no one being in but herself) and took up a big stone, and runs along the tough wall with all his strength, which roared like thunder in the inside of the house, and frightned the wife so, that she thought that the house was tumbling down about her ears, and she ran out and sat down at a distance looking every minute when the house would fall down, till her husband came home and persuaded her to go in, to whom she told the above story, " tout daft tapie," said he, "the house withstand these hundred years." Leper knowing they were both in, comes and plays the same trick over again, which also frighted the good man so much, that he cried out-"run Maggy, run, for my heart plays pitty patty." And they would not lodge in the house any more till the mason convinced them of its sufficiency.

There was another neighbour who had a snarling cur dog, which bit Leper's leg: