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9 A' things was got ready, and next week Sleeky Willie the weaver and him came to gree the marriage, and stay a' night wi' the bride, and teach John good manners, for whan John was hungry he minded his meat mair than his good beheaviour, and he never was fu' till the dish was tume. Willie the weaver was to tramp on his fit, when be thought he had suppet aneugh ; so all things being agreed upon short and easy terms, and the wedding hay set, they were to be three times cry'd on Sunday, and xuitely married on Mon- onday, neither piper nor fiddler to be employed, but sweith awa hame frae the Minister, and into the bed amang the blankets; Ha, ha, cried John, to that's the best o't a'. Now every thing being concluded and proposed, the supper was brought, a large fae haggies, the very smell wad a done a hungry body gude, but John had only got twa or three soups, until one of the butcher's meikle dogs tram- ped on John's fit, which he took to be mates the weaver, and then be would eat nae mair. After supper they went to bed