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 COALMAN'S COURTSHIP. 9 lav'rock in a May morning, O to be married if this be the way. The colliers wonder'd a' to ſee him fae well buſket, wi' a pair of wally ſide auld faſhion'd brooks o' his father's, and a lang cravat ike a miniſter, or Bailie Duff at a buri- al, a clenn face and hands, and no leſs than a gun-ſleev'd linen fark on him, which made his cheeks to ſhine like a ſherney weight, and the colliers ſwore he was as braw as a horſe gaun to 2 cow's dredgy. But Sawny came aff wi' his coals. whiſtling, and whipping up the poor beaſts, e'en as outragious as ony ram at riding time; well might ony body fee there was a ſtorm in Sawny's noſe, light where it like; for no ſooner had he fella his coals, than he left his horſe to come hame wi' a nibour callen, and gaed keeking up the Cowgate and through the cloſſe's, ſeeking auld Be-go his good- mither to be, then in thro' the fiſh mar- ket where he bought a lang herrin, ant twa baps, a pair of futer's auld ſhoon, greaſed black and made new again, to make his feet feaſible like, as he kend the laſs would look at him, (for his mither tell'd him the women look'd ay to the