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Rh Min Indeed Willie we canna break marriage again what faut has your wife?

Willie. Indeed Sir, she files the bed; she did it his last night.

Min. O Willie, she has been drunk, she will never do it again.

Willie. Ye‘re a curst liar Sir said Willie, she wis-na drunk, nor yet the war o‘drink, ye cheating rassal it ye are; I wanda believe the word that ye wad after that; ye are war than a horse or row cowp that ever fell'd a beast; an a body get a bad horse r a bad cow they can fell them again, but a wife that files the bed is war nor ony o‘ hem; ye may ome an see what ort o' a bed she has made to his last night; there is as muckie nastiness upon the sheet as wad supper a sow, tho she hadna gotten her dinner.

Min. Indeed, Willie, ye maun keep her half a year fill ye fee if she grow better, for marriage cannot be broken; and I did not marry you against your will.

Willie. Well then, Sir, ye sudna mak bargains sae sicker, that they canna be broken; di ye think that I'll keep a foul wife a my days, co Willie.

But tricky Tam hearing what past, cried Willie a- fide, and told him, that one of the neighbours came into Willie's house early in the morning while he was asleep and puts barm on the sheets; then told his wife was a very lazy woman; Willie runs to the