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PART  II.

UP got Saway in the morning, and swal- lowed owre his sodded meat, flag by flag and aff he goes to the coals, and the courting, lifting and singiag like a iav’rock in a May morning—“ O, to be married, if this be the way.”

The colliers wonder’d a' to see him foe weel buskit, wi a pair o' wally side auld- fashioned breeks o’ his father's, and a lang cravat like a minister, or Baillie Duff at a burial, a clean face and hands, and no less than a gun-sleev d linen fork on him, which made his cheeks to shine like a sherney weight: and the colliers swore he was as braw as a horse gaun to a cow’s dredgy

Bur, Sawny came aff wi h;s coa’s, whistling and whipping up the poor beasts e’en as outrageous as ony ram at a riding time; well might ony body see three was a storm in Sawny's nose, light when it like ; for no sooner had he fell’d his coals, than he left his horse to come hame wi a neibour callen, and gaed keeking up the Cowgate. aad thro’ the closses, seeking auld BE-GO, his guid- mither to be ; then in thro' the fish-market, where he bought a lang herrin. zrd twa baps, a pair of sater's auld, shoon, greased black and made new again to make his feet seasi-