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17 waway the comes: The child cries, and the bell's rung, the landlord was ready dienough to anſwer. O ſir, ſaid the dro- wer, call her back, for this will ruin ny family, and crack my credit ; but kir, ſaid the girl, you thought nothing to rtuin my character 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 more. Well, ſaid he; I will take it, and you'll make more of buying cows than maiden heads; ſo, away the came with the money and returned the borrowed child to its own mother.

Three merry companions having met on a Saturday night at an ale-houſe, (a shatter, a ſhoe-maker, and a kailor) where they drank; heartily all that night, and to morrow until middays 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 all the reckoning, which