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 Then in the dark ome ill et loun, With a oak tick will break your crown, Or ome may put you in a ditch, The midden hole, byre grupe, or uch, Like places will you ore bemeer, And fright you then from coming here, Such evils then attend the night, you advise to take day light. And now my veres here I’ll end, And jut hall top and wipe my pen; Now fare you well I mut away, Again I’ll ee you on the fair day. This is all from your well wiher, J B.

HE auld wives pinning at the rock, The'bacco pipe they fat do moke, Then they will be o canty a’ And tell thei- crack o very braw, When they do meet into a houe, They have uch talk as comes in coure, And uch a one has play’d the loon, Another got a new braw gown, And ome they’ll ay has pent their gear, And ome great lies then ye may hear; Another man has kis’d his wife, She is wi’ bairn I’ll lay my life,