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ELL Mistriss I'm new come out o' Dundee, I get naething to gi' the horse draff in but the sku your women ay takes his trough to keep sand in, for  their fushicades, i' bink well I wat he's a good  God bless him that I dinna forspeak him; An as well for  quainted wi' me, as if I had been seven years in's company In troth Mistris, fouk has ay need to deffect  they are doing, for the day as I'm coming along  casoway o' Dundee, the laid's brether that came here cry'd me up, an ga' me a biker, an coming out I fell down the stair, an 'maist brake my neck, but a providence  the barm. An you ken Mistris fan I'm ridden down the pow upon Mistris fushicad, she an I crackin t'gether an' I no mindin' fat she's saying', tine's my pisle, an' rid fordert, till I'm about a mile an' a bittockie frae'd, mind's says I, Good faith Mistris, I've tint my pisle, ale  maun gang back for'd againOut ye're a fool cushe,  it gang there, it was no meikle worth. Wa's no worth cothie, Saul, Mistris, it was as good a ane as  was in a poor beast; an' I wou'd na ge'ed for my h year's fee yet; fae ged my wa's back, and gat it just  I fan'd it.

Now, mistris, as you was sayin', I man gi' you a prescriptification o' my life. First fan I came to the wa as soon as I grew a body my father was dissolved to me to school, to learn to dispel, an' a chapman come by he bought me a 'Chief end 'o Man,' an a' 'Prognostication:' but I being contraveenable ran awa' and ged the west mill and helped the miller; For he greed wi'  auld lady, to uphad a' the gaun gear, an' she furnisht  wi' a woman, an gat the o'ercom to himsel fae this  I misglecked a my learnament, well when I was past a h lang lad, I began to think how I sud' come thros the wa an' ye ken the best way was to disjoin mysel' to a  marrow after the orderly custom o' the ban' fan lads  lasses being observed to marry ither, Lord grant prosperity, generation mortification and devulsion to a' them gangs that geat cothie. Now always mistris I'll tell the thing I'm gaun to tell you. The lass's sister that m