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like to burst, and gave Leper half-a- crown to drink. Leper was not long done with his ap- prenticeship till he set up for himself, and go: a journeyman and an appren- tice; was coming into very good bus- iness, and, had he restrained his roguish tricks, he might have done very well. He and his lads being employed to work in a farmer's house where the housewife was a great miser, and no: very clean- ly in making meat, and sneeveled through her nose greatly when she spoke. In the morning, when she went to make their pottáge, she made a fashion of washing the pot, which to appearance seemed to him to have been amongst the first that had been made; then she set it before the fire ili (illegible text) she wen. to the well, in which time Leper, looking into it, sies two great holes in the bottom, stopped with clours, he takes up his goose, an l'hclds it as high as his head, then lets it drop into the pie, which knocked out the bottom of it; presently in comes the wife with the water, and
