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Rh whalp like the louses, ae aula 'orse hobbles on anither anes back, and dat whalps a young 'orse. Gosh woman, it wad be ill-far'd to see a woman sitting wi' a young 'orse on her knee, dighting its arse, and gien it de pap.

The next occasion was Lang Sandy, and Rolioching Jenny's wedding; which held three days and twa nights, my Lord and my Lady, with several gentlemen and ladies, attended for diversion's sake, the piper of Kirkcaldy and the fidler of Kinghorn, were both bidden by Wise Willy the bride's father, and if ony mae came to play unbidden, Wise Willy swore they should sit unsair'd, for these twa should get a' the siller that was to be gien or won that day, the dinner and dorder-meat sat a' in Eppie's college, and the dancing stood in twa rings before the door, and

the first day with dunting and dangling of their heels, dang down the sea-dyke, some tumbled in and some held by the stanes, the fidler fell o'er the lugs an drouket a' his fiddle, the strings gade out of order, and the tripes turned saft like pudding skins, so the