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15 every one's for to hold their egg (illegible text) over (illegible text) legs, and feeing the white cloth, thought it was his own fhirt tail, and verly flyly ftaps it in to his breeches, bit and bit, which the landlady and the maid ob- ferved, but was afhamed to tell him ; fo home he went with the fervit 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 furprifed how he came to have more bulk in his breeches than formerly, but obferving the name they fent it back again, the prieft pleaded to be excufed, owned himfelf only a thief in ignorance. As two maids were coming from milking their cows, one of them ftep- ping over a ftile, fell and fpilt the whole paleful of milk from her head. O, faid fhe what will I do, what will I do ? O, faid 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, faid fhe, if it were my maiden head, I would think no-