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ups and black caps. gor'd me say fae melkle o‘ her : but she's my foncy dawty for's that, well-a wat she's a well natured lassie, an' gin she turn up all natured wife i cannot tell

SAWNY. A well then, I'll venture on her as she is for my mother‘s pleased, and ye‘re pleased, an I am pleased ; we'll I‘m sure to get her an' the taylor has nae bridied her or tame a cryin; trat o‘ her.

MATTY. But sawny man I'll tell you what we'll do. I'll hame an broach her the night on t, and come ye the morn we'll make it fu‘ fall in a wee time: fa thou's: get mair tocher than a Cramon, gammon to mammon; she hat beith blankets and secrets, a covevin-, twa cods o' caff a caff-bed and bowfier : and hearest thou my laddie, I hae a bit auld hogger, and something m it thou', get it when I die: but by my futh it wdl be the last thing I'll part wi, I kenna what l may need yet— ‘tis an auld wife kens her ain weird.

O, this they paid their spout and parted ; but when Sawny came out he ttoited and staggered like a sturdy stot, molash was chief commander for Sawny though every body had twa a heads and four een and more noses than they needed : while in the dark house, he sometimes thought it wa the morning of a new day: a hech ! said he. when was I a' night frae my mither before, she li think