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16 MISFORTUNE IV.

Next day, she says, John, I must go to the market myself, for if you go you'll fight wi' the dogs, and let them run awa wi' ony thing you buy : see that ye put on the pat, hae't boiling again I come hame. John promised weel, but performs very badly. She's no sooner gone, than he puts on the new pat, without any water in it, and a good fire to make it boil, and away the goes to the unhappy well, fills his stoup, and sets it down to look at a parcel of boys playing at cat and dog, they persuaded John to take a game wi' them, on he plays, till ane o' the boys cries, Hey John, 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 persons stopped him; she comes