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 would have a boar's head. Accordingly he wen' to a Carver, and ſaid, Sir, Can you make for me a bare-head? Yes, ſaid the Carver. Then, ſaid he, make me bare head, and thou'ſe have 2od. for thy hire. I will do it, ſaid the Carver. So on St. Andrew's day, before Chriſtmas, (commonly called Yule, in Scotland), the Scot went up to London, for the boar's head, to ſet up at his door. I ſay to thee, ſpeak, ſaid the Scotſman, haſt thou made me a bare-head? Yes, ſaid the Carver. So he went and brought a man's head of wood, that was bare, and ſaid. Sir, here is your bare-head — Ay, ſaid the Scot, the meikle de'il! is this a bare-head? Yes, ſaid the Carver. I ſay, ſaid the Scotſman, I will have a bare head, like a head that foļlows the ſow that has gryces. Sir, ſaid the Carver, I don't know what you mean by a ſow and gryces. What know you not a ſow that will greet, and groan, and cry, A-week, a-week? What, ſaid the Carver, do you mean a pig? Yes, ſaid, the Scotſman, let me have her head made in timber, and ſet on her ſcalp, and let her ſing Whip-whire. The Carver ſaid, he could not Then ſaid the Scotſman, Gar her as ſhe'd ſing, Whip-whire. This ſhews, that all men delight moſt in their own fancy.