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 ( 13 ) San. A vow Mefs' John; ftir, ye hae bairns o* your ain, how did you get them, but yours is a laddies and mine is but a laffie, if you‘ll tell me how you got your laddies, I‘ll tell you how, I got my laffie, an then we‘ll be baith alike good at the bufinefs. The minifter looks at him hute,tute,Sanders,lay down four pound and a groat, and come back to morrow to the ftool, and give fatisfaftion to the congregation, you had more need to be feek- ing repentance for that bominable fin of uncleannefs than fpeaking fo to me. San. Then there’s your filler fitr, I’ve gotten poor penny-worths for't, and ye’ll tell me to repent for‘t, what the auld thief needs I repent when I‘m gaun to marry de woman and then I'll hae to do‘t o'er again every day or they’ll be nae peace in the houfe, figs its nonfenfe to pay filler, repent and do't again too, a fine advice indeed matter minifter, and that is how ye live. Wife Will. Now ftir, you and mafter elders, ye manna put them on the black creepy till they be mar- ried : they've fuffered enough at ae time. A well, a well, faid they but they muft marry very foon then. I trow fae, fays Sandy, we'll be wanting mair clink fule hait ye do for naething here. It's me came Sandy ftarving o‘ hunger, ye might a caften a knot on his lung guts, his mither was backing peafe bannocks up he gets a lump of her leven into his mouth auld thief be on yor haggles bag, Sandy