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12    gentle brought up to be a poor man's penny- worth. Heigh how, quo' Sawny, and 'tis e'en a    great pity, for she's a well-Far'd lusty hissie; he had a great kindness for her. Matty. A weil-a-wat she's no lingletail'd,    she may be a caff bed to a good fallow, but an thou had but seen me at her age, I was a    sturdy glimmer; there was nae a Hynd in a     Dubbyside could lay a corpen to a creel wi     me, the fint a fallow in a Fife but I wad a     laid on the bread o his back, an'a' his gear uppermost, I was na a chicken to chatter wi    indeed laddie, for I had a flank like an ox, an a pair of cheeks like a chapman's arse. Sawny. Nae douts but ye had a pair o'    beefy buttocks, for your very cheeks hings like leather bags to this day, but I'll tell you what I'm gaun to tell you--do ye think that your Kate wad tak me, an 'I would come to court her? Matty. Tak you, laddie, tak you, a faith she'll tak you, for she would tane a poor but- ton thing o' a half blind tailor, wartna me, a poor, blind, bowly, scabbit like creature; I've seen the day I wad hae carried him in    my pouch. Wode I’se warrant her jump at    you, like a fish at a flee, wad I say tak you, and she winna tak you, I'se tak you mysel, but she an I cust out the day about her cock- ups and black caps, gar'd me say muckle o'    her; but she's my sonsy dawty for a that;