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 8 COALMAN'S COURTSHIP. an' they ſet meat before me, and I br hungry a de'il claw the clungeſt an' I bena upſides wi't, for the fame. A deed mither, ſouks man hae meat, an they ſud ne'er ger wives, an‘there's ſome of them no worth the curſing, an'a body were na letting on oath whether or no a hear ye that now, when ye pit me till it and gar me ſpeak : ay by my ſooth, wad rather hae a bit good powny an'a pound of cheeſe, or I were bound to bab after ony hiſſy's buttocks I fee yet. Mither Wa Sawny man thou's a fool an' that's a fau't; gin every ane were as caſy about women as thou is, the warld wad be a wilderneſs, in a wee time there wad be nae body to inhabit the earth but brute beaſts, cats an dogs wad be worrying ither, and everything wad gae to confuſion. Gae to the courting ye dog it ye are, and ither do ſome- thing or naething at a'. PART II. UP got Sawny in the morning, and ſwallowed o'er his ſodded meat, flag by flag, and aff he goes to the coals and the courting, lilting and ſinging like