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 and sent me to the barn to ask him; and meeting him at the barn door, carrying in strae for his horses, I told him his wife had granted to let me stay, if he was not against it, to which he answered, “if I should lie in his midden dib, I should get no quarters from him that night; a when lazy idle villians, turns a’ to be chapmen, comes through the kintry fashing fouks, by seeking quarters; the next day ye'll be gaun wi’ a ponthered perriwig, and a watch at your arse, and winna let fonk stand afore your chop door, ye'll bi sae saucy,” I hearing thus my sentence from the goodman, expected no relief, but to lie without; yet I perceived when he came out of the barn, he only drew the door behind him. So when he was gone, I slips into the barn, and by the help of one of the kipples, climbs up the mon, and there dives down among the sheaves, and happed myself all over so that I lay as warm as the goodman himself. But in the morning, long before day, two fellows came into the barn and fell a threshing, so that by their disturbance I could sleep no more; at last I got up, with my hair hanging o-