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20 at a cow's ſtake, and what other place would you want token about? but ſaid hey did he not tye you to the cow's ſtake? No, faid fhe, I did not need any tying; and how far was between the byre and the houſe? Juſt but and ben, up and down twa ftaps of a ſtane ſtair. Then ſays the prieſt why did you not cry to the folks in the houſe? indeed ſir, ſays ſhe; I could not get cried for the laughing at it

A ſoldier being on a forlough from the north of Scotland, having got no breakfaſt, fell very hungry by the way and no alehouſe being near, came in to a farmer's houſe, and wiſhed then to fell him ſome bread, or any kind of victuals; to whch the ſurly goodwife replied, ſhe never ſold any bread, and was not going to begin with him, he had but three miles and a bittock to an alehouſe, and he might walk on, as ſhe did fair enough when ſhe gied bits of bread for naething to beggars, tho' ſhe gied nane to idle ſoldiers, he had naething to do there awa'. Hout, ſaid the goodman, gie'm a ladlefu' o' our kail, he's been ſomebody's bairn