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Sandy, my honest auld servant, and he'll                     see every thing right done; I'll tell him where he'll get siller to do any thing wi', he's the lad that will not see me wrang'd;                     then Sandy comes wrying his face, and rubbing his eyes. O Sandy, there's a sad alteration here, and ba-a she cries like a                     bitten calf, O sirs, will ye gang a' butt the house till I tell ye what to do; butt they went, and there she fell a kissing of Sandy, and said, now, my dear, the auld chattering ghaist is awa and we'll get our will o' ither; be as haining of every thing as ye can, for thou kens it's a' thy ain; but the corpse' sister and some other people coming in, ben they came to see the corpse, lifts up the cloth off his face, and seeing him all in a                     pour of sweat, said heigh he's a bonny corp, and a lively like colour. When he could no                     longer contain himself to carry on the joke, but up he got among them, a deal of people ran for it, and his wife cried out, O my dear do you ken me? Ay you base jade and whore, better than ever 1 did. Jumps on                     the floor, gets his staff and runs after Sandy, and catches him in the fields, a little from the house;---ate and drank with his sister and neighbours who came to see his corpse, and poor Sandy went home with a skin full of terror, and a sorting of sore bones, took a                     sore fever and died a few days after, so he