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bie like, as he kend the lass would look at them, (for his mither telt‘d hi n the women look'd ay to the men's legs or they married them, and the well legged lowns gaed ay best aff).

So Sawny came swaggerin through a‘ the shell wives, but she was nae there, but com- ing down the town below the Gizrd, met auld BE-GO just in the teeth; and she cries, Hey laddie, my dow, how's your mither honest Mary; I thank you,quo Sawny, she’s in eat hale, ay working some—how's a‘ at hame; is Kate and the laddie well. ’

MATTY. Fu‘ well, my dow ; ye‘re a braw sonty dog groan; a wallie fa' me gin I send ye.

Come, come, quo Sawny, and L'll gie ye a masiock to heat your wame, it is a cauld day, ana ye're my mither s countryman.

Na, fair ia‘ you, Sawny, I'll no refuse it: arse wi a cauld snule : sae follow me, my dow.
 * drams beLter the day, than a .clap on the

So awa she took me quo Sawny down a dark stair to ane o' the now houses, be- neath the yird, where it vas mirk as in a col heugh, aad they had a great fire: Sweet she wi‘me (quo Sawny) for it minds me o' the ill part; apd a muckle pot life a little caldron seething kail, and a roasting flesh: the wife forked them cut as fait as she could into