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ye gang a' butt the houſe, till I tell Sandy what to do? 'Bait they go and there ſhe fell a-kiſſing of Sandy, and ſaid, “Now my dear, the auld channering ghaiſt is awa' and we'll get our will o' ither; mind to 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 came in, and ben they came to ſee the corpſe; lifts the cloth front of his face, and ſeeing him all in a pour of ſweat, ſaid, Hegh, he is a bonny corp, and a lively colour! Then he could no longer contain to carry on the juke, but up he got amongſt them. A deal of the people ran for it, and his wife cried cut, O my dear. do ye ken me! Ay ye baſe jade and whore, better than ever I did- Up he jumps to the floor, and gets his ſtaff; runs after Sandy, and catches him in a field a little from the houſe; gives him a hearty beating, never telling him for what; returns to the houſe, ate and drank with his ſiſter and neighbours who had come to ſee his corpſe. Poor Sandy went home with a ſkinful of terror, and a ſorting of ſore bones; took a ſore fever, and died in a few days after. So he got quit of his cockler, and Leper's mother got her meal.

Leper's mother was a careful induſtrious wife, but as the by-word is, A working mother makes a daly daughter; and ſo it happened here, for ſhe had twa idle, gla ket