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                 ( 10 ) him, thinking she was shot, Willy fees 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: bm his daughter was brought to bed some months thereafter, which was the cause, of the doctor‘s mistake.

P A R T II. NOW wise Willy had a daughter, called Rolloch- ing Jenny because she spoke thich six words at three times, half sense and half nonesense, as her own words and actions will bear witness. She be- ing with child, was brought to bed of a bonny lass bairn: and a‘ 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‘s tae bowed at the at the point like a hawk‘s neb, and Sandy him- self said, 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 sic a busi- ness before, and when he had done a‘ that man cou‘d do at it said it was nonsense, and shamefa' him, but he wad rather ro 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 mair ill na- ture in‘t, nor the auldest wife about the town, it piss'd the bed, and shite the bed, skirl‘d like a wild cat, and keep him frae his night s rest; and a' the auld haggs about the town ca'd Sandy de bairns daddy and a‘ the young gilly-gawkie lasses held out their fingers and cried. Tee, hee, Sandy, the kirk will kittle your hips yet. And after a‘ the bleir eie‘d bell man, came