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( 8 ) canna gang very far without a ſtaff and yet I wad as f be married as what I w f year auld; O! but man is the man be an uſeful body, they ha'e a ſweet breath an a natural heat to keep a body warm; but m one miniſter war an auld wife he wad ken what the want o' a bit man is as well as I. And a this began about wanton Watt the town taylor, was promiſed to tak me agen he a time or tell me whatfore; mony a puckle we butter'd kail blades I gied him held out o' my ain wei and dapit in a his, he ſaid he wad do as meikle to m aged, but he hafna done it; ſa'fe lown carle it he wa cheated me out of fax pund and twa ſarks, and then ga me mak a fool o' myſel' when the laird's douket w bigget and made a' white to gar the dows come, he ſa on my window war white they wad came to me too, a I like a poor fool took a baſon fu' o' gude bear meal as m it no drummock and whiten'd a' my window wi it, but the never a dow came near me the mair o't, b a' the town dogs came eking and picking at it nig and day; I was plagued wi' them till a gude ſhow came and want it as again, and the laird and eve ane came to look and laugh at it.

Humphrey Chuker entering and hearing a' that paſ perſuade his aunt Maggy that no man would marry fu as her, for the looked like the picture of death riding hunger's back for want o' teeth to chew bread for nouriſhment of the body, and that he was come to wr her teſtament, ſo ſhe muſt go to bed and die directly.

When Maggy and Janet had fairly done. With their claſhes from their tongue, They went and birl'd their baubees, They claſh'd and told all downright lies. Now Janet and Maggy did agree Never to drink one drop of tea, But ſtout brown ale and whiſky bare, And they took hands and came away.

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