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23 uiredge; but I’ll gar my colly had them

y the foot, an' I'll had them by the horn, n' pull the hair aff them, and send ’em ame wanting the skin, as he did Sowen nimie’s wee Sandy, for codin o’ his ease, he took aff the poor laddie’s coat, od sae did he e’en. And Willie said, if e were a sow my Lord, an me sitting riting, and you to bite my arse, sudna I ae a mend o’ you for that? odd, my Lord, e wadna hae a bit out o' your arse for winty marks: Ye maun e’en gar Muiredge gie ten marks to buy a plaster to eal the poor bit wean’s arse again.

Well said, Willie, says my Lord; but who put on the sow’s nose again.

A fegs, my Lord, said Willie, she’s hooster like wantin’t an’ she’ll bite nae mair arses wi’t: An ye had hane a nose my Lord as lang as the sow ye’d been obliged to ony body it wad cut a piece aft.