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breecks, and a ragged doublet; gade alway wi' his bosom bare, sometimes had ae gartau, lingel or strae rape was good enough for Sawny. His very belly was a sun-burnt, like a piper’s bag; or the head of an auld drum, and yet his beard began to sprout out like herring banes. He took thick brose to his breakfast, and haps and ale thro’ the day, ad when the coals fell’d dear, and the win' was cauld, bought an oven-sarl, and twa Dumbar Wadders, or s Glasgow Magistrate, which fish-wives ca' a Waflen-herrin.

His mither. auld Mary plagued him aye in the morning : she got sp when the hens kee- led, ringed the ribs blew her snotter-box, trimmed her nose kindled her tobacco-pipe, and at every puff breathed out fretting against her hard fortune, and lately single life. O, but a widow be a poor name; but I live in a wilderness in this lang token, many a man gaes by my door but few fouks looks in to poor Mary Hech, hey, will I never win but o' this wearied life Wa’, Sawny man, wa Sawny man will thou na rise the day the sun’s up, an’ a’ the neibours round about, Willie and Charlie in ******* an hour syne and half ****************** Wilt thou rise an' ki the beasts a ****, ******* na' them I that man. Grump, Grump *uo' Sawney, they got their hopper an hour
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