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 haith she's o'er gentle brought up to be a poor man's pennyworth.

Heigh how, quo' Sawny, and 'tis e'en a great pity, for she's a weel-far'd lusty hissy; had a great kindness for her.

Matty. A well-a-wat she's no lingletailed, she may be a caff bed to a good fallow but an thou had seen me at her age, I was a sturdy gimmer; there was nae a Hyne in a Dabbyside could lay a corpen to a creel wi me, the fint a fallow in a Fife but I wad a laid on the bread o' his back, an' a his gear uppermost, I was nae a chicken to chatter wi' indeed laddie, for I had a flank like an ox, an' a pair of cheeks like a chapman s arse.

Sawny. Nae douts but ye had a pair-o' beefy buttochsbuttocks [sic], for your very cheeks hing like leather bags to this day but I'll tell you what I'm gaun to tell you—do ye think that your Kate wad tak' me, an I would come to court her?

Matty. Tak you, laddie, tak' you, faith she'll tak you for she wad tane a poor button thing o' a half blind tailor, wartna me; a poor, blind, bowly, scabbit like creature; I've seen the day I wad carried him in my pouch Wode I se warrant her jump at you, like a fish at a fly, wad I say tak you and she winna tak you, I se tak you mysel, but she an I cust out the day 'bout her