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4 on them an’ they get a bit frae me til! they work for'r.

But, mither I have been dreaming that 1 was married, and in the bed a- boon the bride, I wonder gin it be true: Od ! I ne’er got sic sun; what wilt be, think ye? How old am I mi- ther ? Do you think I could man a his- sy yet ? fegs 1 have a mind to try, but the saucy hissies winna hae me, I ken well enough.

Mither. Hae you, Jad, ay, mony a hungry heart would be blythe of you; there was never a scaw’d Jockey but there was a scabbed Jenny till him yet; dinna be fear’d lad.

Sawny. A hech mith£r, I’se no be lordly, an’ I sud tak a beggar wife aff the hie gate; but I’ll tell you something that I’m thinking on, but ye manna tell’t to the nibours, for the chiels wad ay jamph me wi’t

Mither. Wad I tell on thee lad, I wad tell on myself as foon,

Sawny Do you mind mither that day I gaed to the Pans, I came in by auldl Matty’s your ain countryman, the Fife wife, it came out o’ the town ye came frae, the wife it ay fays, Be go Laddie