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24 a pair of beard shears, said he, and give me them eheapcheap [sic], so I sold him a pair of B. shears, for three halfpence, and gave him a needle, then parted good friends after the battle was over.

So I went to Linlithgow that night, where I met with Drouthy Tom, my sweet and dear companion, and here we held a most terrible eneounterencounter [sic] with the tippenny for twa nights and a day: and then we set out for Fife, on the hair order, by the way of Torryburn and Culross; and eomingcoming [sic] up to a parcel of women washing by a water-side, I buys one of their hair; the time I was cutting it off, Tom fell a eourtingcourting [sic] and kissing and clapping one of them, who was of the haveral sort: what happened I know not, but she eriedcried out [sic], Ye misleard filthy fallow, ye put your hand atween my feet, mair need another thing sud be there; an ill chance on your pieturepicture [sic], cried an auld wife, for many a ane has taen me bjr there in daffin, and I never said a word about it; ye daft jade, eannacanna [sic] ye haud your tongue whan it's your ain shame that ye speak. Gae awa, cried the lass, he, filthy body, that he is, the last chapman that kissed me had a horse paekpack [sic], but he'll hae naething in his but a wisp of strae, some auld breeks, hair-skins, maukinskins, ony thing that fills the bag and bears bouk, and yet he wad kiss and handle me, I was made for a better fallow; ane o' them eamecame [sic] bye ae day and selled our Meg twa ell and a quarter o' linen, to be her bridal sark; for he had nae mair, and when she made it, and put it on, it wadna hide herheeh, hech, hech, he.

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