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10 kail, and with the terrible burl of farting, up frers a mauken behind him, thinking she was furot; Willy ſees her jumping o'er the dike, thought it was a child brought forth, cries, Come back my dear and be chriſtened, and no rin to the hills and be a Pagan, ſo Willy grew better every day thereafter, being bronght to bed in the kail-yard: but his daughter was brought to bed ſome months thereafter, which was the cause of the doctor's miſtake.

OW Wiſe Willy had a daughter, called Rolioching Jenny, becauſe he ſpoke thick, ſix words at three times, half-ſenſe and half nonſenſe, as her own words and actions will bear witneſs. She being with child, was brought to bed of a bonny laſs bairn: and at the wives in the town, cried, Be-go-laddie, its juſt like its ain daddy, lang Sandy Taſon (or Thomſon) we ken by its noſe: for Sandy had a great muckle red noſe like a lobſter-tae, bowed at the point like a hawk's nehb, and Sandy himſelf ſaid, that it was ſurely his or ſome ither body's, but he had uſed a' his birr at the getting o't, to ſey his ability, being the firſt time e'er he was at ſie a baſineſs before, and when he had done a' that man could do at it, ſaid, it was nonſenſe and ſhimeſa' him, but he wad rather row his boat round the Bafs and back again, or he did the like again: For Wiſe Willy gade wood at the wenn, and ſaid, it had mair ill nature in't, than the auldeſt wife about the town, it piſs'd the bed, and ſhate the bed, ſkirl'd like a wil-cat, and kept him frae his night's reſt; and a' the auld haggs about the town, ca'd him Sandy de bairn's daddy and the young gilly-gawkie laſſes, held out their, and cried, Tie, hie, Sandy, the your hips for you, yet.