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 were married, the wedding 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 fiddler of Kinghorn, were both bidden by Wise Willy, the bride's father, and if any mae came to play unbidden, Wise Willy swore they should sit unsair'd, for these twa should get as the siller that was to be gi'en or won that day.

The dinner and dorder-meat was a set 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 fiddler fell oʻer the lugs ans drouket a' bis fiddle, the strings gade out of order, and the tripes turned saft like pudding-skins; so the bag-pipe had to do for a', and the fiddler got nought to do but sup kail, an' pike banes wi' the rest of them. Now Lord's cook was to order the kettle, but Pate o' the Pans play'd a sad prat, by casting in twa pounds of candle among the kail, which made them fat. Some could not sup them for the candle wicks came ay into their cutties like