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 well as other fouks, an' if a poor beggar y had a bit wean to chrisen, a deil a doit y'll serke him o't.

Mith. Hute awa', man, there's nae body weans but what has filler to pay the isening o' them; or if they be that poor, y sude na get nae weans, and they wad be faith'd syne.

Sawny. Ha, ha, mither, the poor foukes, e the lice, ay when they meet they marry makes mae o' them: An' I think the nisters might chrisen their bits a weans  naething, the water is no sae scant; ey're we paid for preaching, they ay very well both marry and chrisen a'  poor foukes to the bargain, by the way  a maggs,

Mith. Ay, ay, my Sawny, marriage a sweet thing for young souk, an' the bed undefil'd.

Sawny. What the vengeance, mither, ye think that a body is to file the bed every night, an they do't ance?

Mith. Na, na, tha's no what I mean; s happiness that fouk has that's married, sides the wearied lones melonesome [sic] life it I hae'e, ing tumbling an' gaunting in a bed my ne. O sirs! but a man in a bed be an efu' body, an' it were but to claw ane's ack; as for a body's for side, they ean saw it themsel'.