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every one's knee for to hold their egg in when hot; when supper was over the priest lookt down between his legs, and seeing the white cloth, thought it was his own shirt tail, and verly slyly staps it in to his breeches, bit and bit, which the landlady and the maid observed, but was ashamed to tell him; so home he went with the servit in his breeches, and knew nothing of it till going to bed, when it fell from him: his wife enquired how he came by it, he could not tell, but was surprised how he came to have more bulk in his breeches than formerly, but observing the name they sent it back again, the priest pleaded to be excused, owned himself only a thief in ignorance.
As two maids were coming from milking their cows, one of them stepping over a stile, fell and spilt the whole paleful of milk from her head. O, said she what will I do, what will I do? O, said the other maid let it go, who can help it now, you can't take it up again, it's not your maidenead. My maidenhead, said she, if it were my maiden head, I would think no-
