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 and courting, lilting and singing like a lavrock in a May morning, "O to be married if this be the way".

The colliers all wondered to see him sae weel busket, with a pair of wally side -fashioned leather breeks of his father's, a lang gravat like a minister, or Bailie Duff at a burial, clean face and hands, and no less than a gun-sleeved  sark on him, which made his  to shine like a sherney weight,  the colliers swore he was as braw  a horse gaun to a cow's dredgey.

But Sawny cam off wi his coals,, and whipping up the poor , even as outrageous as ony ram at time; weel might ony body see  was a storm in Sawny's nose,  whare it like, for no sooner had  sell'd his coals, than he left his horse  come hame wi' a nibour callan, and  keekin up the Cowgate, and thro'  closes, seeking auld Be-go, his good- to be; then in thro' the fish-, whare he bought a lang herring, and twa baps, a pair of suter's auld , greased black and made new, to  his feet feasible like, as he kend  lass would look at them, for his mither tell'd him, the women looked ay to