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(14) kirk-fouks is ay greedy, ye been wi' the miniſter the day, ye’d get a good lang grace he might a given the meat thou filthy dog that tu is thou hast the bulk of a little whalpie o' my leaven in your guts, it wads been four good bannock and a ſcore, and a ſaird our Sunday’s dinner, ſae wad it een, but an ye keep a reeking houſe an a rocking cradle three eleven years as I hae done, leſs o' that wad fair you baggity beaſt it this, maire that I bore thee, now bear ye that my dow.

The next exploit was an action at law againſt the goodman of Muir-edge, a farmer who lived near by, that kept ſheep and ſwine, his ſheep came down and broke the yards and ate up their kail: the wild herbs, they thought belonged to the ſame man as they ran towards his houſe when they were hunted; the ſwine came very often in and about their houſes, ſeeking fiſh guts or any thing they could get, ſo it happened that one of their children, ſitting eaſing itſelf, one of the ſwine tumbles it over and bites a piece out of the

child's backſide the whole town roſe in an uproar and after Grunkie as they called her they catched her and took her before wiſe Willy, Will takes an ax and cuts two or three inches off her long noſe, now ſays Willy, I trow I have made the ſomething Chriſtian like, thou had ſic a long mouth and noſe before it wad a frighted a very de’il to look at ye; but now ye’re fac’d like a little horſe or cow; the poor ſow ran home roaring all blood and wanting the noſe, which cauſed Muir-edge to warn them in before my Lord; ſo