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What's the matter, sir, you go not to the
kirk? Leper replied, I'm reading my book
and cooking my pot, which I think is a
work of necessity. Then says the one to
the other, don't answer that graceless fellow,
we'll make him appear before his betters;
so they took the kail pot, and puts a staff
through the bools, and bears it to the Clerk's
chamber. Leper who was never at a loss
for invention, goes to the Principal of the
College's house, no body being at home but
a lass roasting a leg of mutton; Leper
says, my dear, will you go and bring me
a drink of ale, and I'll turn the spit till
you come back. The lass was no sooner
gone, than he runs away with the leg of
mutton, which served his lads and him for
their supper. When the Principal came
home, he was neither to haud nor to bind
he was so angry; so on Monday he goes
and makes a complaint to the Lord Provost,
who sends two officers for Leper, who came
immediately. My Lord asked him how he
dared to take away the Principal's mutton?
Leper replied, how dared your civileers to
take away my kail pot? I'm sure there is
less sin in making a pot full of kail, than
roasting a leg of mutton, law makers should
not be law, breakers, so I demand justice on
the civileers. The Provost asked him what
justice he would have? says he, make them
