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15 like a fhip againft the wind, as if he would ki ock holes in the wa’s and win- dows wi’ lus elbows he looked as fierce as a lion, wi’ a red face like a trumpe- ter’s, and his nofe was like a bubly cock's neb, as blue’s a blawart; but or he was halfway hame his head turn’d heavier than his heels, and mony a filthy fa’ he got Throngh thick an’thin h» plash'd till hame he gets at last, grunting and graping -by the wa’s, that auld Mary thought it was their neighbour’s sow, he was so bedaubed wi’ dirt ; gets him to bed, he was in a boiling barrel fe- ver, and poor Mary grat wi’grief

Sawny. Hech hey, co’ Sawny’ but courting be a curst wark an' costly, an' marriage be as mortifying an' murder- ing, the devil may be married for me.

Mither Wa’.Sawnyman,that’s come o’er you now ? thou hast gotten skaeth, some auld wife has witch’d thee, or the de'il has dung the o’er in fome dirty midden ; where hast thou been, or what hast thou seen? thy een reels like a wild cat’s, and the sweat is hailing o’er thy ! nose; thou’s witcht, thou’s witcht! O aman what shall I do ?

Sawny Bock, hock,. co’Sawny, but