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on the table as ufual laid the cloth on every one's knee where with to hold their egg in when hot; when fupper was over; the prieft looking down between his legs, and feeing the white cloth thought it was his own fhirt tail and very flyly ftapsit into his breeched bit and bit which the lady and her maid obferved, but were afhamed to chailance them:o home he went with the ferver in his breeches, and knew nothing of it till going to bed when it fell from him: his wife enquired how he came by it? but he could not tell and was fuprifed how he came to have morr bulk in his breeches than formerly but perceiving the, they fent it back again. The prieft pleaded to be execufed and owned himfelf only a thief through ignorance. As two maids were coming from the milking of their cows, one of them ftep ping over a ftile fell and fpilled the whole of milk from her head O, faid fhe what will l do ! what will I do! O, faid the other made let it go, who can help now you can't make it up again it is no your maiden — My maiden