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19 not much accquainted with 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 highland, "man [sic] his lawman speaks well, and my lawman speaks well, I think we'll both win, and the judges will loose, 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 session for so doing, and, after one elder, another examining her how she got it, and where she got it, and what tempted her to get it, said no doubt the deel wad get her for the getting it: And last of all the minister fell a enquiring how she got it, which run the poor lass out of all patience about the getting. Says the priest, "Tell me plainly where it was gotten?" "I tell you," said she, "it was gotten in the byre, at a cow's stake, and what other place would you want to ken