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led him o' Randy Rab his uncle, his ſelf titty it ſtealed de farks and drank the ſiller, an' how his midder fell'd mauky mutton, an' mair nor a' that, a ſae did een, my lord.

My lord had a friend of his own who was a captain in the army, who came to viſit him, and hearing of the Buckers ſayings and exploits; was defirous to ſee them, and my lord as defirous to put them in a fright, ſent his fervant and ordered them, both men and women, to come up before his gåte, directly the morn about kail-time, and a' that did not come, was to flit and remove out of my lord's ground directly, this put the whole of them in great terror, ſome ran to Wiſe Willy to know what it mean'd, Willie ſaid, it was before ſomething, and he was ſure that death would be the warſt o't, come what will, but Witty Eppie ſaid, I ken weil what's to come, he's gaun te mauk de men o' us fogers, and the wives dragoons,becauſe we're the beſt fighters; I ken there is ſome thing to come on the town, for our Nancy ſaw Maggy's gaiſt the ſtreen, it was buried four ouks ſyne, a hech co' Willie, that's a ſign the meal is dear i' the ither warld, when ſhe comes to think an again, we'll tak our dinner or we go, we'll may be ne'er come back again, ſo away they went lamenting all in a crowd: my lord and the captain were looking o'er the window to them, the captain cries to them, To the right about, to which they anſwered, good bleſs you my lord, what does dat man ſay? then ſaid my lord, turn your face to Maggy Hillheads, and your arſe to the ſea; this they did in all haſte. And what will