Chap-books of the eighteenth century . Simple Simons Misforttmes. 261 that they had taken one another by the quoif, their hair andtheir fillets flying about their ears, he essayed to part them,but got pushed down, and his eggs were all broken. Theconstable, coming up, thought they were drunk, and clappedthem in the stocks, where, being between the combatants, hehad to endure their scolding. On his release he went home,only to endure his customary beating. So he lay all nightin the hog-stye, and on the morrow, in the presence of someof his dearest friends he begged pardon on his knees, of hissw
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . Simple Simons Misforttmes. 261 that they had taken one another by the quoif, their hair andtheir fillets flying about their ears, he essayed to part them,but got pushed down, and his eggs were all broken. Theconstable, coming up, thought they were drunk, and clappedthem in the stocks, where, being between the combatants, hehad to endure their scolding. On his release he went home,only to endure his customary beating. So he lay all nightin the hog-stye, and on the morrow, in the presence of someof his dearest friends he begged pardon on his knees, of hissweet wife One day his w4fe w^ent to a gossiping, leaving Simonat home to fill and boil the kettle. He made the fire and hungthe kettle over it, then started to fill his pail at the well Heput down his pail in order to stop a runaway ox, which led hima chase of three or four miles. On his return he found his pail
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