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chamber door she let fly another crack:
then she goes to order her fellow servant to
give the Laird his supper, but before she
could give the necessary directions, she gave
fire again, which set them all a laughing;
she runs into a, room herself, and there she
played away her one gun battery so fast,
that you would have thought she had been
beseiging the Havannah. The Laird and
Lady came to hear the fun, they were like
to split their sides at proud Maggy. So
next morning she left her place, to the great
satisfaction of all her fellow servants.
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P A R T II.
Leper’s landlady became very harsh to
his master, and very often abused him ex-
ceedingly sore with her tongue and hands,
and always called upon him for more money,
and to have all the money in her keeping;
which Leper was sorry for. It so happen-
ed on a day that the tailor had got a hearty
drubbing both with tongue and tongs, that
he pouched his thimble and was going to
make a queen of her: when she saw that,
she cried out, O! will you leave a poor tender
dying woman. But Leper knowing the
cause of her ill nature better than his master
