14 The MERRY TALES of the Soon after ſhe came to her huſband, and brought a ſpiggot and faucet, ſay- ing pull thy finger out of the tap-hole, good cuckold. Beſhrew your heart for your trouble, ſaid he, make no ſuch bargain with me again. 'T A LE XIV. A Man of Gotham took a young buzzard, and invited four or five gen- tlemens ſervants to the eating of it; but the old wife killed an old gooſe, and ſhe and two of her goſſips ate up the buzzard, and the old gooſe was laid to the fire for the gentlemens ſer- vants. So when they came, the gooſe was ſet before them. What is this, ſaid one of them ? the goodman ſaid, a cu- rious buzzard. A buzzard ! ſaid they why 'tis an old gooſe, and thou art a knave to mock us, and ſo in great an- ger departed home The fellow was very ſorry that he had affronted them, and took a bag and put the buzzard's feathers in it; but his wife deſired him before he went, to fetch a block of wood, and in the interm ſhe pulled out the buzzard's feathers, and put in the gooſe's. Then the man taking the bag, went to the gentleman's ſervants,
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