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11 PART II.

Now Wise Willie had a daughter, called Rolling, Couching Jenny, as she spoke thick sax words at three times, ha'f sense. ha'f nonsense, as her own records will bear witness. She being with child, she was delivered of a bonny lass, and all the wives in the town cried out, be go laddie, its just like its ain father, Lang Sandy Tason, (or Thomson) we ken by its nose; for Sandy had a great muckle red nose like a lobsters tae bowed at the point like a hawk's neb, and Sandy himsel' said. it was shur y his or some other body's, but he had used a his birr at the getting o't, trying his abilities, being the first time e'er he was at sic a busiess before; and when he had done a' that' nian could do at it he said it was nonsence; and shame fa' him but he wad rather row his boat round the Bass and back again or he'd do the like again; for Wise Willie gade wude at the wane, and said it had mair ill nature iu't than the auldest wife about the town; for it pissed the bed. and shit the bedː skirled like a wild cat, and kepped him frae his nights rest, and the auld hags about the town: ca'd him Sandy, the bairns daddy, and a' the young gillie gauky lasses held out their fingers. and cried, Ti hie, hie Sandy, the kirk will kittle your hips for that; and after a' the bleer-eyed bell man