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 COALMAN’S COURTSHIP, 19 s that poor, they fud na get nae weans id they wadna be faſh’d fyne, ſawny. Ha, ha, mither, the poor ink’s like the lice, ay when they meet ey marry and maks mae o’ them ; n' I think the minſters might chriſten leir bits a weans for naething, the wa- iſ no fae ſcant, they're well paid for eir preaching, they may very well ith marry and chriſten a’ the poor uks to the bargain, by the way of a Mither. Ay, ay, my man Sawny, mar- ige is a ſweet thing for young ſouk ’ the bed undefiled. 'Sawny. What the vengeance, mither ye think that a body is to file the d every night becauſe they do’t an’ce Mither. Na, na, that’sno what I mean the happineſs that ſouk has that’s irried, beſides the weari’d lonſome life I hae, lying tumbling and gaunting in led my lane ; O firs ! but a man in a d be an uſeſu’ body, an it were but claw ane’s back, as for a body’s fore- e they can claw it' themſelves, Sawny. A mither, mither, ye hse fun ring again, I think ye might a want- your days when ye wanted fee