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19 An honeſt Highlandman not long ſince, not much acquainted with law, fell out with one of his neighbours, and to the law they went; he employed one advocate, and his oppoſite annother, 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 lawman ſpeaks well, I think we'll both win, and the judges will loſe, 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, and 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 lafs 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,