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11 PART II.

Now, Wise Willie had a daughter, called Rolling Coughing Jenny, at she spoke thick, sax words at 3 times, ha'f sense, ha'f nonsense, as her own records will bear witness. She being with child, was delivered of a bonny lassie; and all the wives in the town cried out, be go laddie, its just like its ain father, Lang Sandy Tason, or Thomson, we ken be its nose; for Sandy had great muckle red nose, like a lobster's tae, bowed at the point like a hawks neb, and Sandy himsel said it was surely his or some other body's, but he had used as his bar at the getting o't to try his abilities, being the first time e'er he was at sic a business before, and when he had done a' that man could do at it, he said it was nonsense; an shame fa' him, but he wad rather now his boat round the Bass an back agen, or he'd do the like again for Wise Willie gade wude at the wean, an' said it had mair ill nature in't than the est wife about the town, for it pissed the bed and shit the bed, skirl'd like a wild cat, and kept him frae his nights rest, and the auld haggs about the town ca'd him Sandy, the bairns daddy, and a' the young girlie gauky lassies held out their fingers, and cried, Ti hie, hie, Sandy, the kirk will kittle your hips for that, an after a' the b-eyed b