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 "Ha, ha," said he, "its nae bairn's play to be married, I find that already." His mother-in-law came in and made up peace, went to a cooper, and got them a big wooden stoup to carry in their water.

Next morning John was sent to the flesh-market an errand to his father-in-law, who gave him a piece of flesh to carry home, and as he was coming out of the market, he saw six or seven of the flesher dogs fall on and wory at a poor country colly dog, "Justice, justice," cries John to the dogs, "ye're but a wheen unmannerly rascals, that fa's a' on ae poor beast, heth ye should a' be put in the toubuoth, and ta'en to the badies, and hanged for the like o' that; its perfect murder," and in he runs amongst the dogs, "and be hanged to you a' thegither. What is the quarrel? What is the quarrel? John flings down the flesh he was carrying, and grips the colly, who took John for an