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                          5 !ac‘d waistcoat: fegs I suppit till I was like to rive o'them, and had a rift o'them the morn a' day ; when I came out I had a kite like a cow wi calf; the spier'd for you;, mither, and I said ye was gaily ; and she looked to me and laugh and gripped my snaklebone, and said I wad be a sturdy fellow yet—I looked to her, and thought I liked her and thinks on’t aye fin fyne; she laugh, and bade me seck out a coal driver for her, for she didna like to carry a fish creel.

Mither Forsooth, Sawny, I’ll gie my twa lugs for a lar'rocks egg if she binna in love wi thee, and tha will be a bargain

Sawny And upon my word mither, she’s a sturdy grimmer well worth the snoaking after ; she has a dimple on every cheek, an' ane on her chin, twa legs like twa polls, and hunches like a sodger’s lady’s hoop ; 'they hobble when she shakes, and her paps play niddety nod when she gangs. I ken by her keekling she has a conceit o' me.

Miter Bt Sawny man, an thou fee ser mither mitty in the town, and Be-go laddie as ye ca‘ her, gie her a dram, she likest it well; spout ye a mutchkin of molalsh in her cecek, ye'll get her mind and speed the better.

Sawny. But mither, how sud I do when gang to court her; will I kiss her; and then kittle her, and fling her o’er as the chiels do