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 (11) ering about the buttock mail, fummoned him and er before the hally band' a court that is held in the irk on Sunday morning; and a' the ill bred laddies ound about, cried, Ay, ay, Sandy, pay the bill- ller, or le‘li cut the cow s tail awa, fo poor San- dy fuffered in the flefh, befides the penalty and nd kirk penance. But wife Willy had pity upon them and gade wi them to the kirk court, what learned folks call the feffion, Jenny was firft called upon and in fhe goes where all the hally-band were convened, eld- ers and youngers, deacons and dog payers keeping the door, the cankerdeft cards that could be gotten between Dyfart and Dubby fide, white heads and' bald heads, fitting wanting bonnets, wi‘ their white headed ftaves, and hodding gray jockey coats' upon' them. Mefs John. fays. Come away Jannet, we're a waiting on you here. Min) Now Jannet where was this child gotten you maft tell me plainly. Jan. A deed ftir it was gotten among the black ftanes at the cheek of the crab holes. Mefs John, ftares at her not knowing the place, but fome of the elders did ; then faid he, O Jannet but the devil has been bufy with you at the time. Jan. By flir, that's a great lie ye‘re telling now, for the de'il ,wifna thereabout, it I faw, nor nae body elfe, to bad us do either ae thing or anither, we loo'd it  unco weel for a lang time before that and fyne we tell’d ither, and greed to marry ither like ither honeft fouk, then mightha we learn to do the thing married fouk does without the devil help- ing us. Whieft, whicft cried they, you fhould be fcourged faufe loon queen it thou is, ye’re fpeaking uonfenfe