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19 come, come, said they, pay down the k-dues, and come back to the stool the n; the price is four pound and a groat the bell man.

Jan-—The auld thief speed the dark o’t far less might sair you and your bell- n baitn, O but this be a warld indeed, en poor honest fouk maun pay for mak use o' their a—: Ye misca the poor l a hint his back, an' gies him the wyte  de ill in de kintry, bastard bairns and ry think; and if it be sae as ye sae ye y thank the deil, for that four pound d a groat I gien you ; that gars ur pat play brown, and gets you jockeyats and purl handed sarks, an whiteaded staves, when my father’s pot walos up nought but bear and blue water.

The woman is mad, said they, for this oney is all given to the poor of the ish!

Jan—The poor of the parish ! fint a ate ye gie to them but we pickles o' ease meal, didna I see their pocks; an’ the minister’s wife gies naething ava to nco beggars, but bids them gae to their