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 we had a moſt terrible encounter with the tippany two nights and a day; and when we ſet out for Fife,  the hair order, by the way of Toryburn and Culroſs,  coming up to a parcel of women, waſhing by a water, I buys one of their hairs, the time I was cutting , Tom fell a courting and kiſſing a girl among them,  was one of the haveral ſort; what happened I know not,  ſhe cried out, ye miſteard filthy fallow, ye put your  a tween my feet, mair need anither thing ſud be there ill chance on your picture cried an old wife, for mony  ane has tane me be there in daffing, and I ne'er ſaid a word about it, a wheen daft jades, canna ye had  tongues whan it's to your ſhame ye ſpeak: gae twa',  the laſs, he, filthy body at he is, the laſt chapman  kiſt me had a horſe-pack, but he'll hae naething in his  a wiſp of ſtrae, ſome auld breeks, hair-ſkins, mauking-, ony thing that fills the bag and bears bouk, and  would kiſs and handle me, hech I was made for a  fallow; ane of them came by ae day, and sell'd our  twa ell and a quarter o' linen to be her bridal ſark, for  had nae mair, and when ſhe made it, and put it on  wadna hide her hech, hech, hech, he.

Lucas