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(10) hind him, thinking ſhe was ſhot, Willy ſees, her jumping o'er the dyke, 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 brought to bed in the kail-yard; but his daughter was brought to be ſome months thereafter, which was the cauſe of the doctor‘s miſtake.

PART. II.

NOW wiſe Willy had a daughter, called Rolloching Jenny, becauſe ſhe ſpoke thick, ſix words at three times half ſenſe and halt nonſenſe, as her own words and actions will bear witneſs. She being with child, I was brought to bed of a bonny laſs bairn; and a the wives in the town cried be go laddie, its juſt like it‘s dadda, lang Sandy Talon, (or Thomſon) we ken by its noſe for Sandy had a great muckle red noſe like a lobſter's tae bowed at the point like a hawk's neb, and Sandy himſelf ſaid it was ſurely his or ſome other body's but he had uſed a his birr at the getting o’t, ta ſee his ability, being the firſt time that e’er he was as at ſick a buſineſs before, and when he had done a' that man could do at i, ſain it was noneſenſe and ſhame fa him, but he wad rather row his boat round the Baſs and back again, or he did the like again: For wiſe Willy gade wood at the wean and ſaid, it had majr ill nature In‘t nor the auldeſt wife about the town, it piſs’d the bed and ſhit the bed, ſkirl'd like a wild cat, and keeps him frae his night’s reſt; and a’ the auld hags about the town cald Sandy de bairn‘s daddy, and a’ the young gilly gawkie laſſes held out their fingers and cried, Tee, hae, Sandy the kirk will kittle your hips yet.

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