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 21 there's not a drop in, tho pot,they are in the plate before you." "Then gie’m spoon and let him sup wi’ us.” The soldier gets a spoon, and thinking he could sup all he saw, the first sup he took, e ,spouted back again in to the plate, and cries out, " O my sore mouth, the ide’s yet all off since I had the clap.” Every one throwing down his spoon, the soldier got all to sup himself. The wife stood cursing and scolding all the time, and when he was done burnt both plate and spoon to prevent the clap. So the soidier came off with a full belly, leaving he wife dressing the goodman's rigging with a four footed stool for bidding him up.

A churlish man and a virtuous wife one time fell out, because the wife had given something to the poor. “ What,” said he, “ mistress, I'll let you know there is no- thing about this house but what is mine.” “ Well, well, woodman, then you will let me have nothing, take it all and give me peace so away they went to bed, and the goodwife turned her backside toward the goodman, and as he was falling asleep,