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 breeks, and a ragged doublet, gade always wi’ his bosom bare, sometimes had but gartan, a lingle, or rash-rape, was go enough for Sawny; his very belly was sun-burnt, and brown like a piper’s bag, the head of an auld drush; and yet he  a ruddy lown in the face, and his be began to sprout out like herrin banes: took thick brose to his breakfast, and b and ale through the day, and when the c fell’d dear, when the wind was cauld,  bought an oven farl, and twa Dumbar vders, or a Glasgow Magistrate, which  fish-wives ca’s a waslen herrin'.

His mither, auld Mary, plagued him in the morning, got up when the keckled, ranged the ribs, blew her snuff box, primed her nose, kindled her tob pipe, and at every puff breathed out fre against her hard fortune, and a lanely life; an' wad aften cry out, O but a W be a poor name! I live but in a wilder in this lang lonen; mony a man gaes b door, but few looks in to poor auld M Hooh hey! will I never win out o weary'd life? —— Wa', Sawny man Sawny man; wilt thou na rife the The sun's up, an' a' the neighbours about: Willie and Charlie is to th an hour syne, an'ha'f-gate hame ag