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11 for there came in a wheen sutor like fel- lows wi’ black thumbs and creeshy a- aprons, and cutted them a’ up in wee time, but they ntver fash’d wi’ us nor we wi’ them ; we first got a gill an’ thea a het pint; a vow, said I Matty is nae Kate gaun to get a man yet ?

A man laddie ! a wha wad hae her ? a muckle lazy useless jade, she can do naething but work at husband wark ; card and' pin, wafh ladies rooms, and scour gentlemens bonny things ; she canna tak a creel on her back, and ap- ply herfelf to merchandizing as I do, t© win a man’s bread.

Sawney, I think fome of the fishers an’ her may mak it up.

Matty. A fisher, laddie! hech the fish- ers wad rather hae a pickle good bait to their hooks, and twa three bladders to their lines, than put up wi’ the like of her, a stinking pridfu’ jade, although I bore her, ay scrapping and washing at herfelf, pricking and prining, keeps ay her face like a flanders baby, an’no less nor ribbons and rings, and her shune made o’ red clouts; a de’il flick pride, when our auld goodams ran barefbot, and our gutchers gaed wi’ bare hips