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not your father's, ſurely its your mithers. The deil's in the man, thie, dimna I ken my father frae my mither. Then, ſaid he he is with child. The deils if the man, quo ſhe, for my mither bares de bairns before, dat's no true ſir; tegs ye're a great liar. Hame ſhe come, and tell'd Willie her father, that the doctor ſaid he was wi bairn. O waes me, co' Willie, for I hae a muckle wame, and I rear its our true. O plague on you Janet! for ye're the father o't, and I ain ſure to die in the bearing o't Willie Eppie was ſent for, as ſhe was a houdie; an ſhe ſand a Willie's wame, to be ſure about it. Indeed, co Eppie, ye're the firſt man ere I ſaw wi bairn before, and how ye'll bear it, I dinna ken; but I would drink ſalt ſea-water and drown it in my guts: for if men get ance the gate of bearing weans themſelves, they'll ſeek nae mair wives. So Willie crank ſea water till his guts was like to rive, and out he got to eaſe