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 with full force, which I bore with, very modestly, till near an end; then she made the wind follow with such force' as made (as I thought) the very stone I leaned upon to move, which made me burst out into laughter; then up gets the wife, and runs for it; I followed hard after into the house, and as I entered the door, I hard the goodman saying, Ay, ay goodwife What's the haste, you run so?

No more passed, until I addressed myself to the goodman for quarters, which he answered, "Indeed lad, we hae nae beds but three, my wife and I, our sells twa, aud the twa bits o little anes, Willie and Jenny lies in ane, the twa-lads our twa men, Willie Black and Tam, lies in anither, and auld Maggs my mither, and the lass Jean Tirram lies thegither, and that fills them a." O but says I, Goodman, there is some of them fuller than others, you may let me ly with your mother and the lass; I shall lie heads and thraws wi' them, and keep on my breeks A good keep me frae a' temptations to sin, although thou be but a callan, heth, I'll rather ly wi Sannock Garner: Hute awa', quo the auld wife, the poor lad may ly on a battle of strae beyond the fire: No, no, cries the goodwife, he's no be here the night or I'se no be here: Dear goodwife, said I, what ails you at me? If you will not let me stay you'll not hidenrhinder [sic] to go where I please: Ay, ay, said she, gae where you like, then I gat in beyond the fire, beside the goodman: Now, said I, goodwife, I like to be here: a d---l be here, an' ye be here the night, said she; ho, ho, said I, but I'm here first, and first com'd first serv'd, good-wife; but, an' the ill thief be a friend of your's you'll have room for him to. Ye thief like widdyfu', said she, are ye evening me to be sib to the