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her up, but found none of it in her guts or gabbie; then says he, they have been but looking for it, I'll go do as they did; strips off his clothes and leaves them on the bridge, goes in a ducking, in which time a ragman come past, and took away all his clothes. So he went home naked to get a bath of the old plaister.
MISFORTUNE VIII.
The next morning, she sent him to a farm-house for a pigful of buttermilk, and as he was returning through the fields, the farmer's bull and another bull was fighting; the farmer's bull being like to loss, John runs in behind him, and sets his head to the bull's tail, on purpose to help him to push against the other; but the poor bull thought John was some other bull attacking him behind, flew aside, and the other bull came full drive upon John, pushed him down, broke the pig, and spilt the milk. So John went home to get his old plaister, which began to be a usual diet to him, and so he regarded it the less.
