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yonders your Girzy coming. John runs into the house wi' the water, and the pat being red hot on the fire, he tumes in the cauld water into it, which made the pat flee all in pieces, just as she was entering the door. John runs for it, and she runs after him, crying, Catch the thief some person stopped him; she comes up, and then she laboured him all the way hame, and he crying, "O Sirs, ye see what it is to be married! The Mither-in-law had to mak up peace again, and he promised good behaviour in time to come.

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MISFORTUNE V.

On the next morning she sent him to the water to wash some cow's puddings, and turn them on a spindle, shewing him how he was to do or he went away. John goes to the water very willingly, and as he turned and washed them, he raid them down behind him, where one of his Father-in-law's big dogs stood and ate them up as fast as he laid them down, till all was gone but the very last ane, which