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 ( 10 ) hind him, thinking the was fhot, Willy fees, her jump- ing o'er the dyke, thought it was a child brought forth, cries, Come back my dear and be and no rin to the hils and be a Pagan, fo Willy grew better every day thereafter, being brought to bed in the kail-yard ; but bis daughter was brought to bed fome months thereafter, which was the caufe of the doctor's miftake.

P A R T. II.

NOW wife Willy had a daughter, called Rolloch- ing Jenny, becaufe fhe fpoke thick, fix words at three times half fenfe and halt nonfenfe, as her own words and actions will bear witnefs. She be- ing with child, was brought to bed of a bonny lafs bairn; and a' the wives in the town cried be-go laddie, its juft like it‘s daddy, lang sandy Tafon, (or Thomfon) we ken by its nofe, for Sandy had a, great muckle red nofe like a lobfter’s tae bowed at the point like a hawk s neb, and Sandy himfelf faid it was fu ely bis or fome other body's but he had uf- ed a his birr at the getting o’t, to fee his ability, being the firft time that e'er he was at fick a bufinefs before, and when he had done a' that man cou'd do at it, faid it was nonefenfe and fhame fa' him but he wad rather row his bost round the Bafs and back a- gain, or he did the life again : For wife Willy gade wood at the wean, and faid, it had mair ill nature in't nor the auldeft wife about the town,it pifs’d the bed and flat the bed, fkirl’d-like a wild cat and keeps him frae his night's reft; and a’ the auld bags about the town ca'd Sandy de bain‘s daddy, and a' the young gilly gawkie lafles 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 blad