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 9   very thing wad gae to confusion. Gae to the courting, ye dog 't ye are, and either do   something or naething at a'. PART II. UP got Sawny in the morning, and swal- lowed owre sodded meat flag by flag; and aff he goes to the coals and the courting lilting and singing like a lavrock in a May morning--O to be married if this be the way. The colliers wondered a' to see him sae weel buskit wi' a pair o' wally side auld-fashioned leather breeks o' his father s, an' an auld creeshy hat, mair like a frying pan than ony thing else; a lang cravat like a minister or   Baillie Duff at a burial, a clean face and hands, and nae less than a gun-sleeved linen sark on   him, which made his cheeks to shine like a    sherney weight; and the colliers swore he was as braw as a horse gaun to a cow's dredgy. But Sawny came off wi' his coals, whist- ling and whipping up the poor beasts, e'en as   outrageous as ony ram at riding time; wee might ony body see there was a storm in   Sawny's nose, light where it like; for no soon- er had he selled his coals, than he left his horse to come hame wi a nibour callan, an   gad keekin up the Cowgate, and through the closses, seeking auld Be-go, his guid