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 were to ly in; one of them ſwore his broad ſword should fail him, if a chapman lay there that night. They took our bed, and made us ſit by the fire all night: I put on a great many peats and when the drovers were faſt aſleep, I put on a big pan full of water, and boiled their brogs therein for the ſpace of half an hour; then lays them as they were, every pair by themſelves, ſo when they roſe every one began to chide another, ſaying, "Hup pup ye ſheing a brog:" for not one of them would ſerve a child of ten years old, being ſo boiled in: the landlord perſuaded  that their feet was ſwelling with the hard travelling, being ſo wet the laſt night, and they would go on well enough if they had travelled a mile or two. Now the highlandmen laught at me the night before, when they lay down in the bed I was to have; but I laught as much to ſee them all three trot away in the morning, with their boil'd brogs in their hands.

E again came to a place near Sutry hill, the ale was good, and very civil uſage, and our draught being very great, the more we drank, the better we lov'd it: and here we fell in company with a quack-doctor, who bragged us with bottle about for two days and two nights, only when one fell drunk, we puſhed and pricked him up with a big pin, to keep him from ſleeping: he bought of our hair, and we of his pills and drugs, he having as much knowledge of the one, as we had of the other: only I was ſure, I had as much as would ſet a whole pariſh to the midden or mug, all at once: but the profit, tho'