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am put in the Guard. tane v.-i the deil or the doctors, or else married and working at the wanton trade of weans-making.

Matty. Hure daft laddie the soup drink's in yous head, and gars we think fae this day and yesterday is a’ W ae day : ye’ll be hame in braw time lad yet

Sawny A-well a well, then, good day to you good mither ; you maun gar Kate tak me, or thief tak you a thegither : I’l hame and tell the length ;tis came, and if it come nae farther it maun e'en stick there.

Off he goes tacking about like a ship against the wind as if he would knock holes in the walls and windows wi'his elbow: he looked as fierce as a lion, with a red face like a trumpeter, and his nose was like a bubbly jock's nob as blue as a blawart but or he wan half way hame his head turn'd hea- vier than his heels, and many a ****y fa' he got; through thick and thin he pleshed till hame he gets at last; grunting and graping by the wall, when auld Mary thought it was their neibours low, he was to bedaubed 'wi dirt: by the time he got him to bed, he was iu a boiling barrel fever, and poor Mary graw wi grief.

Sawny, Hech, hey | but courting be a curst work, and cosily tae: an marriage be as mortifying, and murdering, the de'il may be married for me.