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ILLIE LAWSON was a young man about 25 years of age: he lived a few mile from Frazursburgh, in Buchan Has father put him to the shoemaker trade, but he was only the length of a cobler and mended shoes. His mother was drawn to age, they called her Beatrich Brown she had been twice married, and wad sain noon married the third time; for said she, If I could but get a blind fidler, or a sticked tailor he wad had my back warm in the night time, and help to win my bread But her fore teeth being all but and the most of her chaff teeth made the wooers to pass by the door.

Willie rises ae morning very soon till's wark, and then cries on's mither Rise up mither, and wirk some for your meat; for an ye dinna work better I winna keep you langer.

Mither Indeed Willie, I keeping you san you wasnae able to work, and couldna mak' a bit meat to yoursel’: but ye may gang and seek a wife to yoursel', and I fall gang into a hole o'a house o' my ain