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your daughters are baith lying corpse. My
bairns corpse! I am certain they went to
bed hale and fạir last night. But I tell
you, says the other, the dead bell has been
thro' warning the folks to the burial, then
the mother cries out, О the villian! O the
villian that he did not send me word.---So
they both ran, and the mother as soon as
she entered the house, flies to the bed, cry-
ing, O my bairns, my dear bairns; on
which the sluts rose up in a consternation,
to the great surprise of the beholders, and
the great mortification of the girls, who
thought shame to set their noses out of doors,
and to the great diversion of the whole
town.
Leper and his master went to a gentle-
man's house to work, where there was a
saucy house-keeper, who had more ignor-
ance and pride than good sense and man-
ners; she domineered over her fe!low servants
in a tyrannical manner. Leper resolved to
mortify her pride; so he finds an ant's nest,
and takes their white eggs, grinds them to
a powder, and puts them into the dish her
supper sowns was to be put in. After she
had taken her supper, as she was covering
the table, the imnock powder began to
operate, and she let a great f---: well done
Margaret, said the Laird, your a--- would
take a cautioner. Before she got out of the
