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 ado wi' me, I wadna hae ado wi' the like o' you, nor I am ſure wi' them I never ſaw." But what about the button and the bane kame, goodwife? Sannock, is na this the man? Ay is't, cried the boy, gie me my button, for I burnt the kame, and ſhe paid me for't. Gae awa, ſir, ſaid I, your mother and you is but mocking me; it was either you or ane like you, or ſome other body O goodwife, I mind who it is now, it's ane juſt like me, when ye ſee the tane ye ſee the tither, they ca' him Jock Jimpether: A wae worth him, quo' the wife, if I winna thrapple him for my good bane kame. Now, ſaid I, goodwife, be good, briddle your paſſion, and buy a bane kame and colour'd napkin, I'll gie ye a whaken pennyworth, will gar ye ſing in your bed, if I ſhould tell you the tae half, and gift you the tither, and gar you pay for every inch o't ſweetly or a' be done: Hech man, ſaid ſhe, ye're a hearty fellow, and I hae need o' a' theſe things, for our Sannock's head is a hotchen, and our Jock's is little better, for an' let them alane but ae eight days, they'll grow as grit as groſets. And here I ſold a bene kame and a napkin, for ſhe believed ſuch a douſe lad as I had no hand in making her boy burn the bane comb.

The next houſe I came into there was a very little taylor, ſitting on a table like a t--d on a truncher, with his legs plet over other, made me imagine he was a ſucking three footed taylor; firſt I ſold him a thumble, and there he wanted needles, which I ſhowed him one paper after another, he looking their eyes and trying their nebs in his ſleeve, dropt the ones he thought proper on the ground between his feet, where he ſat in a dark corner near the fire, thinking I would not perceive him: O, ſaid he, them needles of yours is not good, man, I'll not buy any of them. I do not think you need, ſaid I taking them out of his hand, and lights a candle was