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Now, it happened when Wiſe Willie turned old, he took a great ſwellling in his wame and caſting up his kail collops, and cauld fiſh; that nothing could ſtand on his ſtomach; and a ſtout ſtomach he had for crabs, beads, and ſcate bree, or broſe in a bridal morning; yet it failed him & he fell ſick None could cure him, nor tell what ail'd him till a mountebank ſtage doctor came to Kirkcaldy, that could judge by people's piſs, the trouble of their perſon. Wiſe Willie hearing of his fame, piſſ'd into a bottle, and let it away with his daughter. The bottle being uncorked, his daughter ſpilt it by the way; and to conceal her Auch in ſo doing pilled in it herſelf and on the goes, till the came to the ſtage-doctor, when the cried cut aloud, Sir doctor, Sir doctor, here is a bottle of my father's waſh, he has a fair guts, and needs na drite ony, but ſpues a' he eats. Its true I tell you, my dow. The doctor looks at it, then ſays its