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 22                  head. Very well, said, says, my Lord, that's                  good sense. Dinner being over, my Lord desired the bride to dance. Indeed, my Lord, said she, I canna dance ony, but I'll gar my wame wallop fornent yours, an than we'll rin round about as fast's we                  can. Very well bride, said he, that will just do; we shall neither kiss nor shake hands, but I'll                  how to thee, and ye'll beck to me, se we'll have done. -- So, after the dinner and dancing, my                  Lorde xhorted the bride to be a good neighbour, and 'gree with every body round about. I wat weel, my Lord, said she, ye ken I ne'er cast out wi' ony body but Lang Pate o' the Pans, an he                  had a' de wite o't; he began wi' heiteng and jeering me about Sandy, de black stanes an de                  crab holes where de wain was gotten; an then it turned to a hubbub an a cuilashangy, an or                  e'er ye cou'd kiss'd my a--e, my Lord, he was aboon ither on the mussel midden: I trow I                  tell’d him o' Randy Rab, his uncle, his ain titty, it steal' de sarks an drank de siller, an how his mither sal'd maucky mutton, an mair than a'                  that, sae did I e'en my Lord. 3 My, Lord had a friend, a captain in the army, who came to visit him; and having heard of the Buckers' saying and exploits, was desirous to see them. My Lord, to put them in a fright. sent his servant to order them, both men and women' to come up before his gate to-morrow about kail time; and all that did not come, was to flit and remove out of my Lord's ground di- rectly. This put the whole town in a terrible consternation! Some ran to Wise Willie, to see if he could tell what it meant. Willie said, that it was before something; and he said he was sure