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6   waisoat: fegs I suppit till I was like to rive o' them and had a rift o' them the morn a' day; when I came out I had a kite like a cow wi' calf; she spiered for you, mither, and I said ye was gaily, and she looked to me, and leugh, and gripped my shakle-bane, and said I would be a scurdy fallow yet- I looked to her, and thought I liked 'her, and thinks on't aye since syne: she leugh, and bade me seek out a coal driver for her, for she didna like to   carry a fish creel. Mither. Forsooth, Sawny, I'll gie my twa lugs for a lav'rock's egg if she binna in love wi' thee, and that will be a bargain. Sawny, An upon my word mither, she's   a sturdy gimmer, well worth the smoaking after; she has a dimple on every check, an   haunches like a sodjer's lady's hoop, they hobble when she shakes, and her paps play niddlety nod when she gangs; I ken by her keckling she has a conceit of me. Mither. But Sawny man, an thou see her mither Matty in the town, aula Be-go laddie, as you ca' her, gie her a dram, she likes it   weel: spout ye a mutchkin o' molash in her cheek, ye'll get her mind, and speed the bet- ter.

Sawny. But mither, how sud I do when I gang to court her? will I kiss her, an