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ane, an they get a b't frae me till they work for’t.

SAWNY. But mither, I've teen dreamin' that I was married, an' i* the bed aboon the bride: I wonder gin it. be true : Od, I ne'er got sic sun ; what will it be, think ye ? How auld am I, mither ? Dp ye think I could man a hiffy yet? legs, I‘ve a mind to try; but the fancy hissies will no hae me, I ken well enough.

MITHER Say you lad ay mony a hungry hear wad be blythe o' you but there was never » tca'd Jockey but there was a seabbed Jenny nil him yet : dinna be feared lad.

SAWNY A hech mither, I‘se tiro be lordly' an' ****sud tak a beggar wife aff the higate ; but I'll tel’ ye something that I'm aye think- ing on, but ye wanna tell the neibours, for the chiels wad ay jamf me wi't,

MITHER Wau i tell o' thee, lad I wad tell ‘ on my ***********.

SAWNY. Do ye mins' mither, that day I gade to the Pans, 1 came in by ask! Mat- tie's your countrymans, the Fife wife, 't came out «t the town ye came frae ; the wife ‘t i*ys, BE-CO laddie : I gade there, and she was nae in, and the daughter kend me : she ; was unco kind and wade me fat fat brose out o‘ the lee side o‘ her kail-pat; there was baith beef and paunches in ic o d they smell'd like ony baggies*, and shined a' like a gou'd