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A. At Mullgay.

Q. What ſort of commodities were ſold there?

A. Nothing but ałe and wicked wives.

Q. How was it aboliſhed ?

A. Becauſe thoſe who went to it once would go to it no more.

Q. For what reaſon?

A. Becauſe there was no money to be got for them, but fair barter, wife for wife; and he who put away a wife for one fault, got a wife with two as bad.

Q. What was the reaſon that in thoſe days a man could put away his wife for piſſing the bed, and not for fh-g it?

A. Becauſe he could ſhute it away with his foot and ly down.

Q. What is the reaſon now a day's that men court, caſt, marry, and remarry ſo many wives, and keep only but one in public at laſt?

A. Becauſe private marriage is become as common as ſmuggling, and cuckolding the kirk no more thought of than a man to ride a mile or two upon his neighbour's mare! Men get will and wale of wives; the beſt portion and