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(12) to their rest a sudden call indeed! Their aunt hearing of this sudden news, came running in all haste, and coming where the jades mither was at work, and was ignorant of the story; she cries out, Fy upon ye, woman, fy upon ye! What's the matter, sister, says she, what's the matter! I think you might let your work stand for ae day, when your daughters are baith lying corpse. My bairns corpse! I am certain they went to bed bale and fair last night. But I tell you, says the other, the dead bell has been through warning the folks to the burial; then the mother cries out, О the villain, O the villain! that he did not send the word. So they both ran, and the mother as soon as she entered the house, flies to the bed, crying O my bairns, my dear bairns! on which the sluts rose up a consternation, to the great surprise of the beholders, and the great mortification of the girls, who thought shame to set their noses out of doors, and to the great diverson of the whole town.

Leper and his master went to a gentleman's house to work, where there was a saucy housekeeper, who had more ignorance and pride than good sense and