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13     weel-a wat she's a weel-natured lassie, and gin she turn an illnatured wife I canna tell. Sawny. A weel then I'll venture on her as she is, for my mither's pleased, an ye're     pleased, an I'm pleased; wode I am sure to      get her, an the taylor has nae bridled her; or tane a trying trot o her. Matty. But Sawny, man, I'll tell you what we'll do, I'll hame and broach her the night on't, an come ye the 'morn, we'll mak it fu' fast in a wee time, so thou's get mair tocher than a Cramon, gammon to gammon; she has baith blankets and sheets, a covering, and twa cods o' caff, a caff bed and bowster, and hear'st thou, my laddie, I hae a bit, auld hogger, and something in't, thou's get it     when I die; but by my sooth it will be the last thing that I'll part wi', I kenna what I     may need yet--'tis an auld wife that kens her ain weird. On this they paid their spout and parted; but when Sawny came out, he stoited and staggered like a sturdy stot: molash was chief commarder, for Sawny thought every body had twa heads and four cen, and more noses than they needed; while in the dark house he sometimes thought it was the morning of a new day: a hech, said he, when was I a night frae my mither before; she'll     think I am put in the guard, tane wi' the deil or the doctors, or else married, and working at the wanton trade o' weans mak- ing.