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 6 A. Because those that 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 his wife for one fault, got another 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 sh— g it ? A. Because he could shute it away with his foot and lye down. Q. What is the reason now a days that men court, cast, marry, and remarry so many wives, and keep but only one in public at last ? A. Because private marriages are be- come as common as smuggling, and cuckolding the kirk no more thought of than to ride a mile or two on his neigh- bour’s mare! men get will and wale of wives, the best portion, and properest per- son is prefered, the first left, the weak to the worst, and sho whom he does not love, he shutes away with his foot, and lies down with whom he pleases. Q. Flow will you know the bairns of our town by others in the kingdom ? A. By their ill breeding and bad man- ners