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calf, O sire, will ye gang a' butt the house till I tell him 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' ith- er; be as haining of every thing as ye can, for thou kens it's a' thy ain ; but the corpse's sister and some other people com- ing 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 col- our. 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 I did. Jamps 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 had come 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 got quit of his cuckolder, and Leper's mother got her load of meal. Leper's mother was a careful industr