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and rips her up, but found none of it in her guts or gabbie, then says he, they been but looking for it, I’ll go do as they did, strips off his clothes and leaves them cn the bridge, goes in a ducking, in which, time a rag-man came past, and took away all his clothes ; so he went home naked to get a bath of the old plaister.

M I S F O R T U N E    VIII.

The next morning, she sent him to a farm-house, for a pigful of butter- milk, and as he was returning thro’ the fields, the farmer’s bull and ano- ther bull was fighting, the farmer’s bull being like to lose, John runs in behind him, and sets his head to the bull’s tail, in purpose to help him to push against the other, but the poor bull, thought, John was some other , bull attacking him behind, fled aside, and the other bull came full drive u- pon John, pushed him down, broke the pigg, and spilt the milk, so John went home to get his auld plaister, which began to be an usual diet to                             him,