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 a burial, a clean face and hands, and less than a gun-sleev’d linen sark on him which made his cheeks to shine like sherney weight, and the Colliers a' swon he was a bra' as a horse gawn to a cow dredgy.

But Sawny came aff wi' his coals whistling, and whipping up the poor beast e'e as outrageous as ony ram at riding time. Well might ony body seen there was a ston in Sawny's nose, light were it like; fo no sooner had he sell'd his coals, than he left his horse to come hame wi' a nibou callan, and gade keeking up the Cowgate and thro' the cl sescloses [sic], seeking auld Bego, b good-mither to be; then in thro' the fish market, where he bought a lang herring an' twa baps, a pair of suters auld shoon greesed black and made new, to make h feet feasible-like, as he kend the lass was look at them. For his mither tell'd him the women look'd ay to the men's legs they marry'd them, and the well legged louns gade best aff.

So Sawny came swaggering through the shell-wives, but she was nae there; but coming down the town, beneath the guard meets auld. Be-go in in the, w cried out, Hey laddie, my dv, how's you mither honest Mary? I thank you c Sawny she's meat-heal, an ay working