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COMICAL NOTES AND SAYINGS

aye black fafh0ions. and black works have aye a black reward : ye wadna day in honeft fouks fervice, but ran awa’ thy ain black gates, and now ye’re come again to that black feat; wow, woman, but thou was in an anco hafte, it coudna wait on a wedding-day, till I had gotten my gloves win; and does thou think, poor woman, ever to do well, when thou has gotten thy firft bairn frae the de’il, for a’ gracelefs things are curft ; thou fees the bits of herd laddies will tak aff their bonnet, and feek a bleffing to their brofe, but thou gaed into the bed, and caft up thy black gammons, and fought neither advice from God nor man. O Beffie, Beffie, Black is your name, and black fit your nature, and black is your fpot, and black is your hoe, hoe, hoe. There was a young gentleman in his parifh, who had got a baftard, but would not come into obedience to the feffion, nor mount the ftool. Though he owned the child to be his, defended them for two years, until they were going to excommunicate him, Shut Mr Pettegrew, went and got him one day by himfelf, and told him, if he would but come only one day, he fhould fay nothing to him that he would take amifs ; and if it lay in his power, he would absfolve him the firft day. The young man promifed faithfuly to appear upon tne aforefaid conditions, but the word thereof fpread through Glafgow, and the neighbouring towns that fuch a young man was to be upon the ftool upon fuch a Sabbath, for as Long as he had flood out againft it; therefore, every one was curious to go and hear his rebuke, thinking It would be a terrible one : fo when the day came, there was fuch a "Crowd of young ladies from Glafgow, that the kirk would not contain them, all the feats and lofts round about in the kuk being filled with fine ladies, fo that the people of the parifh could, nor get into their feats, after fermon, Mr calls to him by his name, faying, Poor inttl, thou is e'en ftanding there, to fhew fatisfaction ’that foul of fornication but cannot blame them