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 table laid a cloth on every one's knee for to hold their egg in when hot; when supper was over, the priest looked down between his legs, an seeing the white cloth, thought it was his own shirt tail, and very slyly staps into his breeches bit and bit, which the lady and the maid observed, but was ashamed to tell him; so home he went with the servit in his breeches and knew nothing of it till going to bed, when it fell from him: his wife enquired how he came by it, he could not tell, but was surprised how he came to have more bulk in his breeches than formerly but observing the name they sent it back again, the priest pleaded to be excused, owned himself only a thief in ignorance.

As two maids were coming from milking their cows, one of them stepping over a stile, fell and spilt the whole paleful of milk from her head, 'O said she what will I do, what will I do. O said the other maid let it go, who can help it now, you can't take it up again, its not your maidenhead: my maidenhead, said she if it were my maiden head, I would think nothing of it, many a time I have lost my maiddn head with great pleasure and it ay came back to its ain place again, but I'll never gather up my milk.

A drover who frequented a public inn in the north of England, as he passed and repassed, agreed with the servant maid of the house for a touch of love; for which he gave