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17 it I'll gar my colley had them by the fit on I'll them by the horn, an pu' the hair aff them,  send 'em hame wanting the skin, as wi' owen Tammy's wee Sandy, for codin o' his case, he took aff the poor laddies coat, and sae d he e'en. And Willie said, If ye were a sow Lord, and me sitting driting, and you to bite  arse, sudna I hae amends of you for that! d my Lord you wadna hae a bit out of your for twenty merks; ye maun e'en gar  gi'e ten merks to buy a plaster, to heal the oer bit weans arse again.

Well said, Willie, says my Lord; but who uts on the sow's nose again.

A fegs my Lord, said Willie, she's hones'er e wantin' it, and she'll bite nae mair arses; n ye had hane a nose my Lord, as lang as the had, ye'd been obliged to ony body it wad ut a piece af't.

A gentleman coming past near their town, one of their wives where their college ? Said she, Gie me a shilling, an I'll let you baith sides o't. He gives her the shilling,  to see something curious. Now says, there's the one side of your shilling, and the other; so it's mine now.

Now Wise Willie being greatly admired his just judgment in cutting off the sows nose Lord, in a mocking manner, made him burly of Buckhaven; Long Sandy was Provost,