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 I said ye was gaily; and she looked to me, and leuch, and gripped my shakle-bane, and said I would be a sturdy fallow yet—I looked to her, and thought I liked her, and thinks on't aye since syne: she leugh, and bade me seek 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 lav'rock's egg if she binna in love wi' thee, and that will be a bargain.

Sawny. An upon my word mither, she's a sturdy gimmer, well worth the smoaking after; she has a dimple on every cheek, an haunches like a sodjer's lady's hoop, they hobble when she shakes, and her paps play nidlety nod when she gangs; I ken by her keckling she has a coneeitconceit [sic] of me.

Mither. But Sawney man, an thou see her mither Matty in the town, auld be-go laddie as you ca' her, gie her a dram, she likes it weel; spout ye a mutchkin of molash in her cheek, ye'll get her mind, and speed the better.

Sawny. But mither, how sud I do when I gang to court her? will I kiss her, an kittle her and fling her o'er as the chiels do the hisses amang thcthe [sic] hay. I've seen them gang owre ither, and owre ither, and when they grip them by the wame, they'd cry like a maukin.