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 before he was a soldier. What! said she, there's not a drop in the pot, they are a' in the plate before you; then gie'm a 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, he spouted back again in to the plate, and cries out, O my sore mouth, the hide'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 soldier came off with a full belly, leaving the wife dressing the goodman's rigging with a four footed stool for bidding him sup.

A churlish man and a virtuous wife one time fell-out, because the wife had given something to the poor, what, said he mistess, I'll let you know there nothing about this house but what  mine: Well, well, goodman, then  will let me have nothing, take it  and give me peace; so away they  to bed, and the good wife turned  backside toward the goodman, and