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PART II.

I. Now, Wiſe Willie had a daughter, called Rolling Coughing Jenny, becauſe ſhe ſpake thick, sax words at three times, ha'ſ ſenſe, ha'f nonſenſe, as her own records will bear witneſs. She being wi' child, was delivered of a bonny laſſie; and all the wives in the town cried out, Be-go, laddie, it's juſt like its ain father, Lang Sandy Taſon, (or Thomſon), we ken be its noſe; for Sandy had a great muckle red noſe, like a lobſter's tie, bowed at the point like a hawk's neb; and Sandy himſel ſaid, that it was ſurely his, or ſome other body's; but he had uſed a' his birr at the getting o't, to try his abilities, being the first time e'er he was at ſic a buſineſs before; and when he had done a' that man cou'd do at it, he ſaid it was nonſenſe; an' ſhame fa' him, but he was rather row his boat round the Baſs an' back again, or he'd do the like again: for Wiſe Willie gade wude at the wean, an' ſaid it had mair ill nature in't, than the auldeſt wife about the town; for it piſſed the bed, and ſhit the bed, kirl'd like a wild cat, and kept hin frae his night's reſt; and the auld hages about the town ca'd him Sandy, the bairn's daddy; and a' the young gilliegauky laſſies held out their fingers, and cried, Tie bie, his, Sandy, the kirk will kide your hips for that: An' after a', the blear-ey'd bell-man came