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 First, there is one kind that is so keen of spirits that afore they would want it they would tak the shirt aff their back and tear it in bits, and sell it by the pound to raise a penny worth of the sky blue: Second, there is another kind that wish you o believe they never could pree spirits, and when ony body offers to treat them - to a glass it taks a great deal of prigging telling that it was sax months since spirits had crossed their craig. Third, there is another kind that has been a long time married; the first week after she came home she let on that she was going to be thrifty, she first took to the tobacco, next he must have the purse, and afterwards the charge of the family, and he declares that is the thing maks a' the ill bairns.

Tom's mither tell'd him the road where o go, and what to say; and accordingly he sets out wi' his Sunday's coat on, and wi’ his braws, and a pair of new pillonian breeks o' his mither's making. In he comes, and tell’d his errand before he would sit down, says good day to you, goodman, what are ye a' doing here? I'm wanting a wife, and ye're a flesher, and has a good sorting aside you; my mither says ye can sair me, or ony body like me,