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joke, but up he got among them, a deal of people ran for it, and his wife cried out, 'O my dear, do you ken me!' Ay, you base jade and whote, better than ever I did. Jumps on the floor, gets bis staff and runs after Sandy, and catches him in the fields, a little from the house ;-ate and drank, with his sister and neighbours who had come to see his corpse: and poor Sundy went home with a skin full of terror, and a sorting of sore bones, took a sore fever, and died a few days-after, iso he got quit of his cuckoljer, (illegible text) and Leper's mo- ther her load of meal. Leper's mother was a careful indus- trious wire, but, as the by-word is, 'a working mothers makes a dally daugt- ter, and sunt happened here, for she had twa idle glad er sluts of daugh- ters, that would do nothing but lie in their bed in the morning till, as the saying is, the sun was like to burn a hole in their backsiues.' The old woo man, who was bleaching some cloth, was very early at work in the mornings,
