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“ no work to be done, and I would go with you with all my 
“ heart; but I bethink me how I ferved one of thefe officers 
tc lately, and I am rather fearful that I ffiall be known. You 
“ muft all underRand that I went lately to Uleaborg, and had an 
“ excellent piece of roaR veal in my fledge with me, which the 
“ officers took away, though I told them I could not fpare it, as 
Ai I was at a diRance from home, and brought it with me to 
“ eat in town whilR I Raid there. All I could fay availed me 
“ nothing: thofe greedy fellows were refolved to have my roaR 
“ veal, and fo they took it from me. Oh ! to be fure they are 
“ fad dogs, and plunder the peafants of their provifions at a ffiock- 
“ ing rate. 
“ When I returned home, continued he, I told my wife how 
“ I had been ferved, and I got heartily fcolded by her for it. What 
“ a cowardly fot you are, cried ffie, why did you not break the 
g ‘ officer’s head ? Give him your roaR veal truly ! Give him the 
devil to Ruff his maw with !—Thus did my wife exclaim ; but 
what ffie faid put a thought into my head ! Ah ! Ah! cried I, 
“ my gentlemen ! it ffiall not be long before I am even with you! 
“ As I faid thefe jvords I fnatched up our great cat by her hind 
“ legs, and I prefently difpatched her.—Now, fays I, wife, put 
“ fome fire into the oven, and I will get ready fome paRe, and 
“ pufs ffiall be baked in a paRy.—As I faid this, my wife Ropped 
“ me—truly ffie would have our cat’s fkin to line her pelice with ! 
“ Upon which I faid to her rather angrily—What, you are for 
4 ‘ giving the rogues of officers a titbit, are you? If we Rrip off 
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