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9 sair since I first saw the sun! How are they altered kerlin?' Because the gospel's turned like a gainder, & Sin a fine madam, How d'ye do, sweet Madam sin? Come in by here and be a sharer o' our bed and board. Hope ye left a' friends weel in your cozy hame? But on the tither hand, ca' away that dirty wearysome bird; fling stanes an' glaur at him.—What is he ay harp, harp, harping there, for? thraw his neck about. Poor, poor Religion, waes me for her! She was first driven out o' the lord's castle into the baron's ha'; out o' the baron's ha', into the the [sic] farmer's bien dwelling; and at last out o' that, into the poor cauldrife shiel, where there's nae ither comfort, but what she brings wi' her.'

"What has set ye onna these reflections the day, aunty? cried Tibby aloud at her ear; for she was half deaf, and had so many flannel mutches on, besides a blue napkin, which she always wore over them all, that her deafness was nearly compleated altogether.

"Oogh! what's the lassie saying?" said she, after listening a good while till the sounds actually reached the interior of her ear, "what's the young light-head saying about the defections o' the day, what kens she about them?—oogh! Let me see your face, dame, and find your hand, for I hae neither seen the ane, nor felt the tither,