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12 Now John was furnished in a house by his father in law; the bed, the loom, heddles, treadles, thrumbs, reed, and pirn-wheel, was a' brought and set up before the marriage, which was kept a profound secret ; so that John got the first night of his ain wife, and his ain house at ae time. So on the next morning after the marriage, John and his wife made up some articles, how they were to work, and keep house : John was to keep the house in meat, meal, fire, and water ; Girzy was to mak the meat, and keep the house in clothes; the father-in-law to pay the rent for three years; they were to bae nae ser- vants, until they had children ; and their first child was to be a John after its ain Daddy, get it wha will, if a boy; and if a girl, Girzy, after its ain minny, as ye said wha wrought best for't.