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Rh loups o'er the dyke and eats a de kail, and de little anes wi' de wagging horns, creeps in at our water gush-holes, and does the like, when we cry pisue, they ran awa' hame to Muir-edge, but I'll gar my colly haud’em by the fit, and I'll haud 'em by the horn, an pu' a' de hair aff 'em, and send 'em hame wanting the skin, as he did wi' Sowen Tammy's wi' Sandy, for codding o' his pease, he took aff de poor laddie's coat, a sae did he een.

A well then, said my Lord, what do you say; but call in Wise Willy.

In he comes, A well, my Lord, I shall suppose an ye were a sow, and me sitting d—g, and you to bite my arse, sudna I tak amends o' you for that? Od, my Lord, we wadna hae sic a bite out o' your arse for twenty merks, ye maun just gar Muir-edge gie ten merks to buy a plaister to heal the poor bit wean's arse again. Well said, Willy, says my Lord, but who puts on the sow's nose again? A figs my Lord, said Willy, she's honester-like wanting it, and she'll bite nae mair arses wi't, and gin ye had hane a nose, my Lord, as lang as the sow had, ye'd been obliged to ony body it wad cut a piece af't.

A gentleman, coming past near their town, asked one of their wives where their college stood, said she, Give me a shilling, and I'll let you see both the sides o't; he gives her a shilling, thinking to see some curious sight; Now there's one side of your shilling and there's the other, and 'tis mine now.

OW Wise Willy was so admired for his just judgment in cutting off the sow's nose, that my Lord, in a mocking manner, made him burly-bailie