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 12 The History of Simple John

Now John was furnished in a house by us father-in -law ; the bed, loom, hedles, treadles, thrumbs, reeds, and pien-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 or 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 ser- vants, 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 Minny, as he said, wha had wrought best for’t.