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 16 thing of it, many a time I have loft my maidenhead with great pleafure, and it ay came back again to its ain place, but I'll never gather up my milk. A drover who frequented a public inn in the north of England, as he paffed and repaffed, agreed with the fervant maid of the houfe for a touch of love ; for which he gave her a fix and thirty fhilling piece : On the next morning he mounted his horfe, with- out afking a bill or what was to pay; but fir, faid the landlord, you forgot to pay your reckoning: Well minded, fir, I forgot my change ; the maid was called in all hafte ; yes, faid fhe I got it, but it was not for that, throws it down and off fhe goes : her miftrefs gave her the challenge, fhe told her it was fo, but fhe fhould be up with him ' Twelve months after, he com- ing paft with his drove, puts up at the fame inn, as formerly : The girl then goes to a neighbour woman, who had a young child about three months old, lays it on the table, faying, fir, there’s the change of your fix and thirty and