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 a dog, which made me to run out curſing, before the miniſter had given the bleſſing: I then came  to my lodging-houſe, and then went to dinner with the goodman, and it being the cuſtom in  place to eat peaſe bread to their broth, and corn  to their fleſh, ſo the goodwife laid down a  ſcone and a peaſe ſcone to the goodman, and  ſame to me, the peaſe one for the broth, and the  one for the beef; and as the goodman and I  together, when he broke off a piece of the peaſe  to his broth, I was ſure to break as much of the  cake below, and when we came to eat the fleſh  did the ſame, ſo he ate the coarſe and I the fine.

Travelled then weſt by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got  in a farmer's houſe, there happened a  between the goodman and his mother, he being  man unmarried, as I underſtand, and formerly their ſowens had been too thin; ſo the goodman being a ſworn birly man of that barony,  to ſurvey the ſowers before they went on the, and actually ſwore they were o'er thin, and ſhe  by her conſcience they would be thick enough  hands, and ill een baed awa' frae them: А et be here mither, ſaid he, do ye think that I'm ? Witch here or witch there, ſaid the wife, by all her ſaul, and that was nae banning ſhe, they'll be good ſubſtantial meat, a' what ſay  chapman? indeed goodwife ſaid I, ſowens is but meat at the beſt, but if ye make them thick, and put a good lump of butter in them