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 .8.) ye gang a' butt the houſe, till I tell Sandy what to do?. Butt they go, and there fhc fel a kiſting of Sandy, and ſaid, “ Now, iny 'dear, the auld channering ghaiſt is awa', and we'll get cur, will o'ither; mind to be as bsining of everything as ye can. for bou kens it's a'thy ain." But the corpfe's filter and ſome other people came in, and ben they came to ſee the corpfe ; lifts ghe cloth from off his face, and iceing him all in a pour.of. ſweat, ſaid, Hegh, he is a bonny. corp, and a lively colour! 'When lie could Ano longer contain to carry on the joke, but up he got amongſt then. A deal of the . poeple ran for it, and his wife cried out, O my dear. do ye ken me? Ay, ye baſe jade and whore, better than ever I did: Up he jumps to the floor, and gets his faff; runs atter Sandy, and catches him .in a field a little from the houſe; gives him a hearty téating, never telling him for what; returns to the houſe, ate and drank with his fifters and 'ncighbours who had come to ſee his corpſe. Poor Sandy went hoine with a ſkin- ful of terror, and a forting of fore boncs; took a fore fever, and died in a few days after.--So he got quit of his cockler, and Leper's mother got her meal. Lcper's mother was a careful induſtrious wife, but as the by-word is, A working another makes a daly daughter, and ſo it happened here, for fhe had twa idle, glaket