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 Guild, but Witty Eppie had ay the custing vote, in a' their courts and controversies. There happened one day a running horse to stand at one of their doors, and a child going about, the horse trampled on the child's foot, which caused the poor child to cry; the mother came running in a passion, crying. A-wee bet'ye for a 'orse it ere ye was born! filthy barbarian bruit it t'ou is, to set your muckle iron lufe on my bairn's wee fittie; od stir, I'll rive the hair out o' your head, gripping the horse by the mane and the twa lugs, cuffing his chafts,

as if he bad been her fellow-creature, crying, Be go-laddie, I'll gar you as good; I'll tak you before Wise Willy the bailie, and he will cut aff your hand wi' de iron lufe, and dan you will be cripple, and gang thro' the kintry on a barrow or ou twa shule-staffs, like Rob the Randy, an' a meal pock about your neck. Her neighbour-wife hearing and seeing what past, cried, O ye fool taupy, what gars you say that a 'orse was born; do you think dat a 'orse has a fadder or a midder, like you or me, or ony ither body? A-what way do they come to the warld dan? A ye fool tappy, dinna they whalp like the louses, ae auld 'orse hobbles on anither anes back, and dat whalps a young ‘orse. When Lang Sandy and Rolioching Jenny