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not ken that tailors potage is heavier than
other mens. Indeed lad I believe it, but
they say ye're a warlock; its Wednes-
day all the world o'er, and a waefu' Wed-
nesday to me indeed, my pot might ha'e
served me this fifty year, a sae wad it
e'en..
This sport diverted Leper and his lads
through the day; and after supper, know-
ing he was to get some dirty bed, as the
cows and the people lived all in one apart-
ment, he choose rather to go home; and
knowing the moon was to rise a little after
midnight, he sat by the fire, told them many
a fine story to drive away the time, and
bade the wife make the bed to see how it
might be: to save candle she made it in
the dark, directly on the floor behind where
they sat, shaking down two bottles of straw;
a calf which chanced to be lying on that
place, and which the wife did not notice was
covered with the straw, and the bed clothes
spread over it. The most of the family be-
ing in bed, the wife told them to go to bed
also, but Leper knowing of the calf, said
I'll make my bed come to me, on which the
wife began to pray for herself and all that
was in the house; so up he gets his elwand,
and gives a stroke on the bed which caused
the brute to rise, and not seeing where to
go, it fell a crying and turned round, which
