Chap-books of the eighteenth century . 348 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. They let him down, to work he falls,The bacon strait doth bind,The gipsies up the bacon haulAnd leave the fool behind. He went to the larder and helped himself to the bread andbutter, and by his sooty and begrimed appearance he frightenedthe maid, who thought he was the devil; and she alarmed her. master, who came with a sword, but was appalled by the sightof the pseudo-fiend. He walked away, frightening the children,till the women of the town determined to drive the devil out;and sorely they beat poor Taffy, who
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . 348 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. They let him down, to work he falls,The bacon strait doth bind,The gipsies up the bacon haulAnd leave the fool behind. He went to the larder and helped himself to the bread andbutter, and by his sooty and begrimed appearance he frightenedthe maid, who thought he was the devil; and she alarmed her. master, who came with a sword, but was appalled by the sightof the pseudo-fiend. He walked away, frightening the children,till the women of the town determined to drive the devil out;and sorely they beat poor Taffy, who took refuge in thechurch, where he was captured by the sexton, who was notafraid of him, carried before a justice, and condemned to standfor one long hour or more in the pillory, where the historyleaves him.
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