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             and his Twelve Misfortunes. 23

" fairest? And what will I get to do “ you good ?” "O!" said he, “ Girzy, “ I’m a brizzl'd a tween the feet:" “ Are ye indeed,” quoth she, “ then “ I wish ye had broken your neck, “ that I might a gotten anither, use- " less ae way, and useless mae ways, “ upo' my word, ye’s no be here, gang “ whare ye like.”

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

Now, as poor John was turn’d out o’ doors next morning, to go awa’ hirp- ling on a staff, one carne and told him his Mother had died last night, “ Oh " hoch! said John, and is my Mither " clean dead ! O an she wad but look “ down thro’ the lift, and fee how " I’m guided this morning, I’m sure " the wad send Death for me too : “ I’m out o’ a Mither, an out o'a wife, " out o’ my health and strength, and “ a’ my warklooms.” His Mother- in-law came and pleaded for him : “ Hand your tongue, Mither,” faid Girzy, "If ye kend what ail’d him, “ ye wad na speak about him, he’s “ useless.