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 facc'd waistcoat: fegs I suppet till I was like to rive o' them, and had a rift o' them the morn a'day; when I came out I had a kite like wi calf: she spier'd for you, mither and I said ye was gaily; and she looked to me and leugh and gripped my shakcle-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 sturday gimmer, well worth the smoaking after; she has a dimple on every cheek an haunches like a sodjer's hoop; they hobble when she shake, and her paps play niddety nod when she gangs; I ken by her keckling she has a conceit of me.

Mither. But Sawny 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 o' 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' tau; kittle her and fling her o'er as the chiels do