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12 pitcher, till it flew in, pieces about her, then off she runs with the fright round a turf-sack, and into the house before him. John came in trembling to the bed again, wi'the fright, praying to preserve him, for sic a knocking-stane he never yet saw, for it ran clean awa when he broke the pig puon it.

ow John was furnished in a house with his father-in-law; the bed, the loom, riddles treadles, thrumbs, reed purn-wheel, was a' brought and set up before the marriage, which was kept a profonnd secret; so that John get his first night of his ain wife, and his ain house at ae time. So on the next morning after the marriage, John and his wife made up some articles, 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.