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 The man was enraged, as we may well think, gave him many a thump, and ordered him to repeat:

This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch. The lad kept bawling out:

This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength, scrambled out, beat the crier, and told him to say:

On went young 'un till he found a fellow with only one eye; but he kept up his song:

This was too much for Master One-eye, who grabbed him and chastised him, bidding him call:

So he did, to be sure, till he came to a house, one side of which was on fire. The people here thought it was he who had set the place a-blazing, and straightway put him in prison. The end was, the judge put on his black cap, and condemned him to die.