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15                   gillieganky lassies held out their fingers and cried, Tie, hie, hie, Sandy, the kirk will kittle your hips for that: An' after a', the blear-ey'd bell-man came blad- dering about the buttock-meal, summon- ed him and her before the haly band, a                   court that was held in the kirk on Sun- day-morning; and all the herd laddies round about, cried, Ay, aye, Sandy, pay the bull-siller, or we'll cut the cow's tail awa'. So poor Sandy suffered sadly in                   the flesh, besides the penalty and kirk penance. 2. But Wise Willie had pity on them, and gade wi' them to the Kirk-court, what learned folk call the Session. Jenny was first called upon, and in she goes, where a' the haly band was convened, elders and younger deacons, and dog-pay- ers keeping the door, the cankardest carls that could be gotten between Dy- sart and Dubyside, white heads and bald heads sitting wantin' bonnets, wi' their white headed staves and hodden-grey jockey-coats about them. Mess John says, Come away, Janet, we're waiting on you here. Min. Now Janet, where was this child gotten? you must tell us plainly. Jan. 'A deed sir, it was gotten among the black stanes, at the check of the crab holes. Mess John stures at her, not knowing