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time before that, an syne we tell'd ither, and agreed to marry ither, like honest fouk; then might na we learn to do the thing married fouk do, without the deil helping us.

Whisht, whisht, cried they, ye should be scourged, sausie loon quien that thon is, ye're speaking nonsense.

Jan.—De deil's i' the carles, for you and your ministers are liars, when ye say it is de deil it was helping Sandy and me to get de bairn.

Come, come, said they, pay down the Kirk-dues, and come back to the stool the morn; the price is four pound, and a groat to the bell-man.