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muckle red noſe, like a lobſter's tae, bowed at the pointlike 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 be was at fic a buſineſs before; and when he had done a' that man could do at it he ſaid it was nonſences and ſhame fa' him but he would rather row his boat round the Baſs and back again or he'd do the ike again, for wiſe Willie gade wude at the wan, and ſaid it had mair ill nature than the auldeſt wife about the town; for it piſſed the bed, ſhit the bed, and ſkirl'd like a wild cat, and kept him frae his night's reſt; and the auld bags about the town ca'd him Saudy the bairn's daddy; and a' the young gillie gaukie laſſies held out their fingers and cried Ti hi hi Sandy, the kirk will kittle your hips for that; An' after a' the blear eyed bell-man came blethering about the buttock meal, ſum-