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 sister and some other people coming in, ben they came to see the corpse, lift 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, 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, better than ever I did.' jumps on the floor, gets his staff and runs after Sandy, and catches him in the fields, a little from the house, and gave him the most unmerciful belabouring that man ever got; so that poor Sandy went home with a skin full of terror, and a sorting of sore bones, took a sore fever, and died a a few days after; so he got quit of his cuckolder, and Leper's mother got her load of meal.

Leper's mother was a careful industrious wife, but as the bye-word is, 'a working mother makes a dally daughter,' and so it happened here, for she had two glaikit sluts of daughters that would do nothing but lie in their bed in the morning, till, as the saying is, 'the sun was like to burn a hole in their backsides.' The old woman, who was bleaching some cloth, was very early at