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17 but I'll gar my colley haud them by the fit an I'll haud them by the horn, an' pu' the hair aff them, and send them hame wanting the skin, as wi' Sowen Tammy's wee Sandy, for coding o' his pease, he took aff the poor laddie's coat, and sae did he e'en. And Willie said, if you were a sow, my Lord, and me sitting droiting, and you to bite my arse, sudna I hae amends of you for that ! Od, my Lord, ye wadna hae a bite out of your arse for twenty merks; ye maun e'en gar Muir- edge gi'e ten merk to buy a plaister, to heal the poor bit wean's arse again.

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

A fegs, my Lord, said Willie, she's honester like wanting it, and she'll bite nae mair arses. An ye had hane a nose my Lord, as lang as the sow had, ye'd been obliged to ony body it wad cut a piece af't.

A gentleman in coming past, near their town, asked one of their wives where their college stood? said she give me a shilling and I'll let you see baith sides of. He gives her the shilling thinking to see something enrious. Now, says she, there's the one side of your shilling, and there's the other, so its mine now.

Now, Wise Willie being greatly admired for his judgment in cutting off the sow's nose, my Lord, in a mocking manner, made him burley bailie of Buckhaven ; Lang Sandy was provost,