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away she comes: The child cries, and the bell's rung, the landlord was ready enough to answer. O sir, said the drover, call her back, for this will ruin my family, and crack my credit; but sir, said the girl, you thought nothing to ruin my character and crack my maidenhead. Peace, peace, said he, my dear, here's one hundred and fifty pounds, and take away the child and trouble me no more. Well, said she, I will take it, and you'll make more of buying cows than maidenheads; so away she came with the money and returned the borrowed child to its own mother.
Three merry companions having met on a Saturday night at an alehouse, (a hatter, a shoe-maker, and a tailor) where they drank heartily all that night, and to morrow until midday: and their beats were who had the lovingest wife. So they agreed for trial of their good nature, that every man should do whatever his wife bid him do as soon as ever he went home; who did not as she ordered him was to pay all the reckoning, which
