Note 106 — Part II.[104]
Reading edition
This seems to be the only story in any edition of Leper the Taylor that has come under our notice to which the following lines from an elegy on Peter Duthie, a chapman worthy who lived between 1721 and 1812, could possibly bear any reference:—
‘Nae mair will Pate e’er travel round —————————— Nor tell how Leper threw the cat Into auld Janet’s boiling pat.’