12
did, advised him to take her on a fine day,
like a mile out of town, and give her a walk,
and he would stay at home and study a
remedy for her disorder. ---Away they both
go; but as she was always complaining for
want of health, and that she was very weak,
she cried frequently out, O! 'tis a crying
sin to take a woman in my condition out o'er
a door. During their absence, Leper goes
and searches the bed, and below the bolster
gets a bottle of rare whisky, of which he
takes a hearty pull, and then pisses in it to
make it up; gets a halfpenny worth of
snuff, and puts it in also, shakes all to-
gether, and so sets it in its place again.---
Home they came, and she was exceedingly
distressed as a woman could be, and cried
out, it was a horrid thing to take her out of
the house. The tailor seeing her so bad,
thought she would have died, ran as fast as
he could for a dram, but she in her hypoc-
risy pretended she could not take it, and
called on him to help her to bed, into which
he lays her; she was not well gone when
she fell to her bottle, taking two or three
hearty gluts, then she roars out murder,
I'm poisoned, I'm poisoned. Bocking and
purging began, and the neighbours were
called in; she lays her blood upon poor
Leper, and tells how such an honest woman
brought her a'e bottle as another was done,
