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

MISFORTUNE VIII.

The next morning she sent him to a farm-house, for a pigful of butter-milk, and as he was returning through the fields, the farmer’s bull and another 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, on pur- pose to help him to push against the ether; but the poor bull thought John was some other bull attacking him be- hind, fled aside, and the other bull came full drive upon John, pushed him down, broke the pig, and spilt the milk. So John went home to get his auld plaister, which began to be an usual diet to him, and so he regarded it the less.