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 nights reſt, nor days peace thinking about you: an' if you will not ſend me a favourable anſwer, I believe I will gang daſt a' the gither for I am deeper in love with you now than ever I was: l will come to you within five days, and ſet our marriage day, for I lang greatly to be in bed with you, my dear, and ye will be free from your maſt'er at the term of Whitſunday, and we ſhall be married very ſoon: No more from your dear love,WILLIAM LAWSON. May 13 th, 1793.

Dear William, OU need not ſend more letters, you may come. yourſel, as you ſaid in your letter, if your af- fection be as great as you ſay ; for I will not diſap- point you: I will be free with my maſter within ſe- ven days, and we ſhall many very ſoon: No more from your love,    BESSY GIBB, May 13th, 1793. Willie receives the anſwer of his letter, and tells his mither: Indeed, quoth Willie, I’ll gang till her myfel, and let the marriage-day; but mither, tell me this, will I meddle wi’ her the firſt night, think ye? Mither. Indeed Willie, ony thing at ye like: But if ye di meddle wi’ her, for my bleſſing gi’e her a guid rattle, ſhe will like you a’ the better man. About three days after, Willie goes back, and ſets the marriage day, and bought his ſweet-heart home with him twa days before the marriage: they were neither to ha’e piper or fidler at their wedding, but three men to gang in before the minſter with them; for, ſaid Willie, we needna mak’ n eat to a parcel o’ idle fouk we dinna ken ſat we may need yet: fools makes feaſts, an’ wife fouks eat them So they were three times cried upon Sunday, and married on Monday morning, and nae body at the bedding but themſelves upon Monday night. But next morning, Tricky Tam the town’s taylor played them a ſad trick, by taking about a chapin of warm thick barm and broke open Willie’s door, and laid the barm on upon the under sheet: between the bride and the bridegroom’s hips: Willie began to