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 17 your six and thirty, and away she comes : The child cries, and the bell’s rung,the lanlord was ready enough to answer." O sir," said the drover, “call her back, for this will ruin my family, and crack my credit.” " But sir," said the girl, "you thought nothing to ruin my characrter and crack my maidenhead.” “ Peace, peace,” said he, “ my dear, here's . one hundred and fifty pounds, and take away the child and trouble me no mere.” "Well” said she, “ I will take it, and you’ll make more of buying cows than, maidenheads;" so away she came with the money and returned the borrowed child to its own mother

Three merry companies having met on a Saturday night at an alehouse,(a hatter, a shoe-maker, and a tailor) where they drank heartily all that night, an to- morrow until mid-day ; And their beats were who had the lovingest wife.So they agreed for a trial of their good nature, that every man should do whatever his wife bid him do as soon as ever he went home ; who did not as she ordered him was to pay the reckoning, which come