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and she roars out murder! murder! for she
was sticket in the a--e: the neighbours
came running in, and Leper went out with
his bit of good beef, leaving the wives to
doctor his landlady's doup, as they pleased;
he still denied the doing of it, and his master
believed it might happen accidently, but
the houdie was very oft to be had before it
was got hale again; and his landlady by
eating of the horse beef, took such a loath-
ing at flesh, that Leper and his master got
all the beef ever after, and his landlady
turned one of the kindest mistresses a pren-
tice could wish for.
There was a neighbour wife on whom
Leper used to play tricks sometimes, for
which she came and complained to his mas-
ter and had him severely beaten several
times, Leper resolved to be revenged on
her, so one night he came to the backside
of the house, (no one being in but herself)
and took up a big stone, and runs along the
rough wall with all his strength, which roar-
ed like thunder in the inside of the house,
and frighted the wife so, that she thought
the house was tumbling down about her ears,
and she ran out and sat down at a distance,
looking every minute when the house would
fall down, till her husband came home and
persuaded her to go in, to whom she told
the above story; hout tout, daft tapie,' said
