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master believe it might happen acci- dentally; but the howdie was very oft to be had before it was got hale again ; and his landlady, by eating of that lorse (illegible text) beef, took such a loathing at flesh, that Leper and his master got all the beef ever af er, and his landlady turned one of the kindest mistresses an apprentice could wish for. There was a neighbour wife on whom Leper used to play tricks sometimes, for which she came and complained to his master, and got him severely beat- en several times. Leper resolved to be revenged on her; so one day, he came to the backside of the house (no one being in but herself,) and took up a big stone, and runs along the rough wall with all his strength, which roar- ed like thunder in the inside of the house; and frightened the wife so, that she thought the house was tumoling down about her ears, upon which she ran out and sat down at a distance, looking every minute when the house would tall down, till her husband carne home and
