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                        7 weel to her, she'll hae a guess, seek a quiet word o'her at the dear, and gin it be dark; gie her a wee bit kiss when ye hae tell'd her your errand, and gin th<*? gie you cheese and bread or ony meat, *** good whether it be so or no, and for my blessing be monstfu’ wi' yoar mou', and dinna eat o'er muckle, , for I've seen you sup as mony milk brose, as wad a far't twa men to hurl in a barrow.

Sawny. Aha. but mither ye’re lyinig now, I for I never did it but ance, but au they set meat before me, an I cc hungry a deil claw the clungest an I hinna upsides wr't for the same. A deed mither, fouks maun hae meat an they should ne'er get wives, and there's some o' tham no worth toe cursing, an' a body werna letting an oath, whether or no. A hear ye that now, when y‘e pit me till't & gar me speak, ay by my sooth, 1 wad rath- er hae a bit good powny and a pound o' chese, or I were bound to bab after ony hif- fy’s buttocks I see yet.

Mither  Wa Sawny man thou’s a fool an' that's a faut, gin every ane were as easy a- bont women as thou is. the warld wad be a wilderness, in a wee time there wa i be nae body to inhabit the earth but brute beasts ; cats and dogs wad be worrying ither, and every thing wai gang to confusion. Gae to I the courting, ye dog it you are, and either do something or naethine at a’.