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christening o'them ; or if they be that poor, thcv fud na get nae weans, a id they wadna be fash'd fyne.

Sawny. Ha, ha. mither, the poor fouk is i like the lice, ay when they meet they marry, and makt me o’ them: and I think the ministers might christen their bits a weans for naething, the water's no fae scant: they are weel said for their preaching, they may very very well baith marry and christen a the poor fouks into the bargain, by the way of maggs.

Mither. Ay, ay my man Sawny, marriage is a sweet thing for young fouk, and the best undefiled.

Sawny What the vengeance, nither, did ye think that abody is to file the bed every night, because they did it ance.

Mither Na na, that's no what I mean it is the happiness that fouk hae that’s mar- ried, beside the wearied loansome life that hae, lying tumbling and grunting in a be my lane: O, sirs! but a man in a bed be useful body, an it were but to claw ane’s back as for a bodys fore side, they can claw themselves.

Sawny  Ah mither, mither, ye hae full a-string again; I think ye might a want a' your days when ye wanted sae lang. We have plenty o’ baith milk and meal snuff and tobacco, but ye smell at the crack o* t