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23 to do good? " Oh!" said he, “Girzy, I'm a' brizzled atween the feet. " Are ye indeed ?" quoth she, “then I wish ye had broken your neck, that I might a gotten anither, useless ae way, and useless mae ways, upo' my word, " ye's no be here, gang whare ye like."

MISFORTUNE XII.

Now, as poor John was turned out o' doors next morning, to go awa' hirp- ling on a staff; one came and told him his mother had died last night. Oh hoch! said John, and is my mither clean dead! O an she wad but look down through the lift, and see how I'm guid- ed this morning, I'm sure she wad send death for me too. I'm out o' a mither and out o' a wife, out o' my health and strength, and a' my worklooms. His Mother-in-law came and pleaded for him: Haud your tongue, Mither, said Girzy, if ye kend what all'd him eye wadna speak about him, he's useless, no worth the keeping in a house, but to oa' him to die like an auld beast at a