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to mend? Some laughed at them, others were like to kick them out of doors, and ſo they had to return without Setting any account of him.

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15. Now, after Tom's return to Scotland, he got a wife, and took a little farm near Dalkeith, and became a very douſe man for many days, following his old buſineſs the cowping of horses and cows, feeding of veals for ſlaughter, and the like. So one day he went to a fair, and bought a fine cow from an old woman, but Tom judged by the lowneſs of the price that the cow certainly had ſome fault: Tom gives the wife the other hearty bicker of ale, then ſays he, 'Gudewife, the money is yours, and the cow is mine, ye maun tell me ony wee bits of fants that ſhe has.' 'Indeed,' quo' the wife ſhe has nae a faut but ane, and if she had wanted it, I wad never a parted wi' her.' 'And what's that, Gudewife?' ſaid he. 'Indeed,'ſaid ſhe, the filthy daft beaſt ſucks ay hersel' Hute,' ſays Tom, 'if that be all, I'll ſoon cure her of that, 'O! can ye do that,' ſaid the wife; if I had kend what