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himſelf among the kail; and with the terrible noiſe of his farting, up ſtarts a maukin behind him, who thought it was ſhot: Willie ſeeing her jump o'er the dike, thought it was a child brought forth, and cries, Come back my dear, and be chriſtened, and dinna rin to the hills to be a Pagan. So Willie grew better every day thereafter, being brought to bed in the kail-yard; but his daughter was brought to bed ſome months after, which was the cauſe of the doctor's miſtake.

Now Wiſe Willie had a daughter called Rolling Coughing Jenny, becauſe the ſpak thick, ſax words at 3 times, half ſenſe, and half nonſenſe as her own records will bear witneſs. She being with child, was delivered to of a bonny laſſie; and a' the wives a in the town cried out Be-go laddie, its juſt like its ain father, Lang Sandy Taſon (or Thomſon) we ken by for its lang noſe; for Sandy had a great