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 12   The History of Simple John

to the bed again wi’ the fright, pray- ing to preserve him, for sick a knock- ing-stane he never yet saw, for it. ran clean awa’ when he brake the pigg u- pon it.

Now John was furnished in a house by his Father-in-law, the bed, loom, hedles, treadles, thrums, reeds, and pirn-wheel, was a’ brought and set up, before the marriage, which was keept as a profound secret; so that John, got the first night of his ain wife, and his ain house a’ at ae time. So on the next morning after the marriage, John and his wife made up some ar- ticles, how they were to work, and keep house ; John was to keep the house in meat, meal fire and water; Girzy was to mak the meat, and keep the house in clothes ; the Father in- law to pay the rent for three years,, they were to hae nae servants, until they had children,--- and their first child was to be a John after its ain Daddy, get it wha will, if a boy, and if a girl, Girzy after its ain Min- ny, as he said, wha had wrought bed for’t.

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