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 4 COALMAN'S COURTSHIP. on them an' they get a bit frae me till they work fort Sawny But mither, I've been dream in' that I was married, an' i' the bed aboon the bride, I wonder gin it be "true: Od! I ne'er got fie fun; whal wilt be, think ye? How auld am I, mi ther? Do you think I could man hifiy yet? figs I've a mind to try, but the faucy hiſſies will no hac me, I ken well enough, Mither. Hae you lad, ay mony a hun gry heart wad be blyth of you; but ther, was never a fca'd Jockey but there was a ſcabbed Jenny till him yet; dinna ba ſcar'd lad, Sawny. A hech, mither, I'le no b lordly, an' I fu'd tak a beggar wife af the hi' gate; but I'll tell ye ſomething that I'm ay thinking on, but ye man na tell the nibours, for the chiels wad as jamſ me wit Mither. Wad I tell of thee, lad I wad tell o' myſel as ſoon. Sawny Do you mind, mither, that day I gaed to the Pans, I came in by auld Matties, your countryman's, the Fife wife, it came out of the town yo came frae, the wife it ſays, Be-go laddie,