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Kate. O Saunders but ye be short, can ye no stay till my mither come hame?

SAWNY I've stand long enough for any thing l‘ll be the better : & I'm nae sae short as your totum of a tailor, it I could step in my shoe, sae could se'en

Hame he goes in a passion, and to his bed he ran crying. O death, death! I thought the jade wad a jumped at me: no comfort nor happiness mair for me. O mither gae bake my burial bread, for I'll die this night or soon the morn. But early next morn- ing, in comes auld Be-go, his good mither, who had left her daughter in tears for night- ing o‘ Sawny and hauls him and his mither awa to ge' a dinner o‘ dead fish, where a was 'agreed upon, and the wedding to be upon Wednesday : no bridal fouks but the twa mi- thers and themselves twa

So according to appointment-, the; met at Edinburgh, where Sawny got thy cheap priest, who <&ve them twa three words and twa three lines, took their penny and a gocd drink, wish' d them joy, and gaed his wa‘s. Now said aukd Bego, in that be your minister, he‘s but a drncken b—b: ye might i taen take anither's word for‘e a kiss and a hoddle at a hillock side we'd a been as weel if no better. I hae heard some honest men say mair oe'r their brose. no. what he said athegither: but an ye be pleas*d ~I‘m