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six or seven of the flesher-dogs fall on and worry at a poor country colly dog; "Justice, Justice, cries John to the dogs, "ye’re but a wheen unmanerly rascals, that fa’s a’ on ae poor beast, heth ye sude a’ be put in the tonbouth, and ta’en to the bailies, and hang’d for the like o’ that; it’s perfect murder, "and in he runs amongst the dogs, "and be hang’d to you a’ thegither, What is the quarrel? What is the quarrel? John flings down the flesh he had carrying, and grips the colly, who took John for an enemy too, and bites his hands till the blood followed the whole of the tykes comes on poor John, till down he goes in the dirt amongst their feet, and one of the dogs runs off with his flesh, so John went hame both dirty and bloody and without his flesh, told Girzy how it happened, who applied her old plaister, her Tangs and Tongue, made John to curse the very Minister that married them, and wished he might ne’er do a better turn.

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MISFORTUNE. III

Next morning, John wras sent to the well with the great stoup to bring in water for