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80 shakin’ the water frae his haffets, wi’ my faither cryin’ efter him that the next time he cam’ there wi’ his Latter-Day heresies, he wud gie him a different kind o’ baptism.

Weel, efter that I wis put under the hand o’ Daniel Dockan,

the herbalist in the Trongate. He said that Mrs. Wark’s saw wis rank pushion, and micht hae cost me my life, let abe my leg. Frae that day I began to get better, but it wis slow progress at the best, and I may say that frae this simple cause I lost the better pairt o’ a half-year’s schulin’.