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is a certain old saying, That where women are conveen'd in crowds, there can be but little silence; and some have acknowleded [sic] that it was a great bondage for them to hold their peace in the church; and where there is much talk by ignorant speakers, it is diverting for persons of understanding to hear them. Therefore we have furnished the public with a small collection of old wives' noted sayings and wonders, which they relate happened in their own time, also what has been told them by their forefathers.

Two old wives, Maggy and Janet, as their rocks, began their cracks as follows:

Janet. A dear Maggy, and how auld will ye be now, o' it's lang since I kind you.

Maggy. Indeed, Janet, that's what naebody kens, for my father aud mither had sae mony o' us, they ne'er counted how auld ane o' us was, they minded aye wha o' us was born first, and wha was neist ane anither, and that was a' that e'er we sought to ken about it, but I hae mind o' the mirk Munday.

Jan. Hout, ut [sic], woman, the mirk Mun-