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17 dan? Ye fool taupy divna they whalp like the louſes ae auld horſe hobbles on anither enes back, and dat wholpſ a young 'orſe: goſ hwoman, it wad be illſard to ſee a woman fixing wit a young Horſe on her hnee dighting is arſe and gi'en it the pop. The next occaſion was lang Sandy and rolioching Jenny's wedding, which held three days & twa nights my landlord and my lady with ſeveral gentlemen and ledies attended for diverſion's ſake, the piper of Kir- keoldy & the ſidier of Kinghorn were both bidden by wiſe Willy the bride's father, and if ony ane came to play unbidden, wiſe Willy ſwore they ſhould fit unſaird, for theſe twa ſhould get at the filler that was to be gi'en that day, the dinner and dorder meat fat a' in Kppie's college, and the dancing flood in twa Tucture the o the firſt day with dancing and dangling of their heels, dang down the ſea dyke, ſome tumbled in and ſome held by the ſtanes the fiddler fell o'er the lugs and druket a'his fiddle, the ſtrings gaad out of order, and the rripea turn'd ſoft like pudding ſkins, ſo the bagpipe had to do for s, and the liddler got nought to do but ſup kail an pike banes with rest of them. Now my lord's cook was to order the kettle, but Pate of the Pans played a fad prank calling in ta