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8 if they set meat before me, au' I hungry, de’il claw the clungest bu**'se be upfides wi’t for the same,. A deed mither, souks maun hae their meat and they ne’er sud get wives, an’ there’s some o’ them no worth the curling, an’a body werena letting an oath whether or no. a hear ye that now, when yc pit me til’d an' gar me speaks ay, by my south, I wad rather hae a bit good powny and a pound of cheese, ere I were bound to bab after ony hiffy’s buttocks l see yet.

Mither. VVa Sawny man, thou’s a fool, and that’s a faut; gin every ane were as easy about women as thou’rt is, the wardle wad be a wiidtrness, in a wee time there wad be nae body to inhabit the earth, but brute beasts, cats an’ dog’s wad be worrying ither, and every thing wad gang to confusion. Gae to the courting ye dog n ye are. and either do something or naething ava.

P A R T II.

U got Sawny in die morning, and swallowed o’er his sodden meat flag by flag, and :;ff he gaes to the c saiklge the courting, lilting and sinng **