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 ane, an they get a bit frae me till they work for't.

Sawny. But mither I've been dreamin' that I was married, an' in the bed aboon the bride; I wonder gin it be true? O I ne'er got sic fun: what will't be, think ye? how auld am I mither? Do you think I could man a hissy yet? fegs I've a mind to try; but the saucy hissies will na hae me, ken weel enough.

Mither. Say you lad, ay mony a hungry heart wad be blythe o' you, but there was never a sca'd Jockey but there was a sabbed Jenny till him yet: dinna be scar'd lad.

Sawny. A hech, mither, I'se no be lordly an' I sud tak a beggar wife aff the hi' gate; but I'll tell ye something that I'm aye thinking on, but ye maun na tell the neighbours, for the chiels wad aye jams

Mither. Wad I tell o' thee, lad I wad tell o' mysel as soon.

Sawny. Do ye mind mither, that day I gade to the Pans I came in by auld Mattie's, your countryman's the Fife wife, it cam' out o' the town ye came frae the wife that says Be-go laddie, I gade there, an she was unco kind and made me fat brose out o' the le side o' her kail-pot! there was baith beef and paunches in't; od they smel,d like ony haggis, and shined a' like a gou,d