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 the bottle, and sent it away with his daughter. The bottle being uncorked, his daughter spilt it by the way, and to conceal her sloth in so doing, pissed in it herself, and on she goes till she came to the stage-doctor, when she cried out aloud, Sir Doctor, Sir Doctor, here is a bottle of my father's wash, he has a sair guts, and needs na drite ony, but spikes a' he eats. It's true I tell you, my dow. The doctor looks at it, then says, it's not your father's surely, it's your mither's. The deil's in the man, said she, divna I ken my father frae my mother. Then, said he, he is with child. The deil's in the man, co' she, for my mither bare a' de bairns before; dat's no true, sir, fegs ye're a great liar. Hame she comes, and tell'd Willie, her father, that the doctor said he was wi' bairn. O waes me, co' Willie, for I hae a muckle wame, an' I fear its owre true. O plague on you, Janet, for ye're the father o't, au' I am sure to die in the bearing o't. Witty Eppie was sent for, as she was a houdie, an' she fand a' Willie's wame, to be sure about it. Indeed, co' Eppie, ye're the first man ere I saw wi' bairn before.