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very merrily, and dancing about, as he ſaw the other two d, ſaying. Come, my dear heart, and give me a kiſs Go hang yourfell, you drunken dog, ſaid ſhe: So he was either obliged to go and hang himſelf directly, or pay the whole of the reckoning:

An honeſt Highlandman, not long ſince, not much acquainted with the law, fell out with one of his neighbours, and to the law they went; he employed one advocate, and his oppoſite another; and as they were debating it in Court before the Judges, the Highlandman being there preſent, a friend on his ſide, aſked him how he thought it would go, or who would gain the day? Indeed, ſays the Highlandman, his law-man ſpeaks well, and my law-man ſpeaks well, I think, we'll both win, and the Judges will life, for they ſpeak but a word now and then.

A young woman by the old accident having got herſelf with child, was called to the both n for doing; and after ne elder another, examining her how ſhe got it, and where she got it, and what