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 ( 14 ) kirk-fcuks is ay greedy, ye been wi‘ the minifter 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 wada been four good bannock and a fcone, and a faird our Sunday‘s dinner, fae wad it een, but an ye keep a reeking houfe an a rocking cradle three eleven years as I hae done, lefs o’ that wad fair you baggity beaft it tuis, maire that I bore thee, now bear ye that my dow. The next exploit was an action at law againft the goodman of Muir edge, a farmer who lived near by, that kept fheep and fwine, his fheep came down and broke the yards and ate up their kail: the wild hares, they thought belonged to the fame man as they ran towards.his houfe when they were hunted ; the fwine came very often in and about their houfes, feeking fifh guts or any thing they could get, fo it happened that one of their children fitting eafing itfelf, one of the fwine tumbles it over and bites a piece out of he

child's backfide the whole town rofe in an upron, and after Grunkie as they called her, they catehed her and took her be- fore wife Willy, Will takes an ax and cuts two or three inchies off her long nofe, now fays Willy, I trow I have made the fomething Chriftian like, thou had lie a long mouth and nofe before it wad a fright- ed a verv de'il to look at ye ; but now ye’re fac’d like a little horfe or cow the poor fow ran home roaring all blood and wanting the nofe, which cauf- ed Muir-edge to warn them, in before my Lord; fo