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14 themselves, they’ll need nae mair wives. So Willie drank sea water till his guts was like to rive, and out he got to ease himself among the kail ; and with the terrible noise of his farting up starts a maukin behind him, who thought it was shot; Willie seeing her jump o’er the dyke, thought it was a child brought forth, and cried out, Come Back my Dear, and be christened,and dinna rin to the hills to be a Pegan. So Willie grew better every day thereafter, being brought to bed in the kail-yard; but his daughter was brought to bed some months after, which was the cause of the doctor’s mistake.

Now Wise Willie had a daughter called Rolling coughing Jenny, because she spak thick sax words at three times, half sense and half nonsense, as her own records will bear witness. She being with child, and delivered of a bonny lassie; and all the wives in the town cried out, Be go laddie, it’s just like its ain father, lang San-Tason, (or Thomson,) we ken by his lang nose; for Sandy had a great mucke red nose, like a labster’s tae, bowed at thupoint like a hawk’s neb, and Sandy himself said