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 24 The history of Simple John, &c.

dykeside.” “ Hour tout, co’ the auld wife, we’ll mak o’ him and he’ll mend again.’’ So John got peace made up af- ter a’, and he was easier mended than the burnt web; got all his tradles and warklooms set in order, the wife’s tongue excepted, which was made of worm- wood, and the rest of her body of sea water, which is always in a continual tempest.

So John appeals to a Jedburgh Jury, if it be not easier to deal wi’ fools than headstrong fashions fouks; owns he has but an empty scull, but his wicked wife wants wit to pour judgment into it, never tells him o’ danger till it come upon him, for his Mother said, he was a biddable bairn, if ony body had been to learn him wit.

FINIS.

GLASGOW: Published and Sold by R. HUTCHISON & Co. 1817.