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 Wilt though rife an' gi' the beasts a bit; you minds na' them, I wat man.

Grump, grump, quo' Sawny, they got their supper an hour after I got mine, shot dead come on them, an' they get a bit e me till they work for't.

Sawny. But O mither, I been dreaming that I was married, an' i' the bed wi' the de; I wonder gin it be true: Od! I ver got sic fun! What wilt be, think ye? How auld am I, mither? Do ye think I'm for marrying yet? Fegs am a mind to 't, but the four saucy hissies 'ill no hae me, then well enough.

Mither. Hae you lad, mony a hungry heart d be blyth o' you; but there was never ca'd Jacky but there was a seabbit Jenny him yet: dinna be fear'd lad.

Sawny. A hech, mither, He no be lordly, I sud tak a beggar wife aff the hi'gate. I'll tell you something it'm ay thinking bat ye manna tell the nibours, for the elds wad ay jam me wi't.

Mither. Wad I tell o' thee! I wad tell mysel' as soon.

Sawny. Do ye mind, mither, that day I d to the Pans, I came in by Auld Mattie's r countryman's, the life wife, it came o' the town ye came frae, the wife it, Be-go-laddie, I gade there, and she na in, an' her daughter kend me; she