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PART III.

1. THERE happened one day a running horſe to be ſtanding at one of their doors, and a child going about, the horſe tramped upon the child's foot, which cauſed the poor child to cry: The mother came running in a paſſion, crying, A wae be to you for a horſe, filthy barbarian brute it t'ou is, ſetting your muckle iron luſe on my bairn's wee fittie. Od, ſtir, I'll rive the hair out o' your head, gripping the horſe by the mane and the twa lugs, cuffing his chaſts, as he had been her fellow-creature. crying, Bego-laddie, I'll gar you as good, I'll tak you afore Wiſe Willie the baillie, an he'll cut aff your hand wi'de iron luſe, an ye'll be cripple, an gang thro' the kintry in a barrow, or ou twa ſhule ſtaves, like Rab the randy, an a meal pock ahout your neck.- Her neighbour wife hearing an ſeeing what paſt, cries, O you fool taupy, what gars you ſpeak that gate till a horſe? He diſna ken ae word that ye're ſayin till him.

2 WHEN Lang Sandy and Rolicoughing Jenny were married, their wedding took up three days and two rights. My Lord, and my Lady,