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Now, tho’ all the ceremonies of Jockey and Maggy’s wedding were ended, when they were fairly bedded before a wheen railling unruly witnesses, who dang down the bed aboon them; the battle still increased, and John’s work turn’d out to be very wonderful, for he made Janet, that was his mither’s servant lass the last year, grow like an elsnin haft, and got his ain Maggy wi' bairn forby. The hamsheughs were very great, until auld uncle Rabby came in to redd them; and a sturdy auld fellow he was, stood lively wi’ a stiff rumple, and by strength of his arms rave them ay sundry, flingen the tane east, and the tither west, until they stood a’ round about, like as mony forsoughen cocks, and no any durst steer for him; Jokey’s mither was driven o’er a kist, and brogit a’her hips on a round heckle! up she gat and running to fell Maggy’s mither with the laddle, swearing she was the mither of a’ the mischief that happened; Uncle Rabby ran in between them; he having a great lang nose, like a trumpet, she recklesly came o’er his lobster neb a drive with the laddle, until the blood came out, an ran down his auld grey baird, an hang like snuffy bubbles at it: O then he gaed wood, an looked as waefu’