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to be in other houses, where he got meat
and diversion.
Leper being resolved on revenge against
his mistress for her thin kail, no kitchen,
and little bread; for though flesh was boiled
in the pot none for poor Leper and his master,
but a little bit on sundays, and all the bones
were kept and put in the pot, to make the
broth through the week. Leper perceived
always when she took of the pot, she turned
her back and took out the flesh, and set it
on a shelf in her own bed-room; one night
after work, he steals out a pan, cuts a piece
of flesh out of a dead horse, and then goes
to a lime kiln, and boils it; next day his
master being from home, his landlady and
him being in the house, after she had set of
the pot as usual, and taken out her bit of
good beef, he goes out for some time and
then comes in, saying, the minister's lass is
wishing to see you, to go directly and speak
to her mistress. Off she goes in all haste,
Leper runs and takes away her bits of good
meat, and lays down his horse flesh; and
knowing she would return in a passion, and
sit down with a soss in her cushion chair, as
she used, he takes a large pin, and staps it
straight through the cushion with its head
on the chair and the point to her backside.
So in she comes in a rage, and down she
sits with all her weight on the pin point,
