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11 ering about the buttock-mail, ſummoned him and her before the haly band, a court that is held in the ir oa Sunday morning, and the ill bred laddies found shoat cried, ay, ay, Sandy pay the bill- filer, or we llaut the cow' tiilaw, ſo poor San- dy ſuffered ſadly in the fleſh beſides the penalty and Kirk penance. But wiſe Willy had pity upon them, and gade wi' them to the kirk-court what learned folks call The Seſſion, Jenny was firſt called upon, and in the goes where all the haly band were convened, el- ders and youngers, deacons and dog payers, keeping he door, the cankeredeſt carles that could be gotten between Dyſart and Dubby ſide, white heads and bald heads, fitting wanting bonnets wi' thir white hended ſtaves and hodding prey jockey coats about them. Meſs John ſays, come awa Janet, we re a wait- ing on you here. Min. Now Janet, where was this child gotten! you muſt tell plainly. Jan. A deed ſtir, it was gotten amang the black Lanes, at the cheek o' the crab holes. Meſs John ſvtares at her, not knowing the place, but ſome of the elders did then ſaid he, O Janet, but the de'il has been buſy with you at the time. Jan. O by my ſigs ſtir, that's a great lie ye're tel. ing now, for the devil walna thereabout it I ſaw, por ne body elfe, to bid us do either ne thing or anither, we leed ither unco weel for a long time Before that, and fyne we tellid ither, and greed to harry ither like ither honeſt souk, than might we Learn to do the thing married ſouk does, without he da'il helping us. Whieſt, whieſt, cried they, you ſhould be ſcourged of