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 hairs are better than the blink o' an ill ee," says I. "The best charm against witchcraft is cleanliness," says she. " I doubt it muckle," says I; "auld ways are aye the best!"

"Weel done!" cried Mrs Smith. "I trow ye gae her a screed o' your mind! But here comes Grizzy frae the market; let us hear what she sayS to it."

Grizzel advanced to her mistress, and with alacrity poured into her lap the money she had got for her cheese and butter; proudly at the same time observing, that it was more by some shillings than they had ever got for the produce of one week before that lucky day.

"What say you?" cried the wife of auld John Smith; "are the markets sae muckle risen/ That's gude news indeed!"

"I did na say that the markets were risen," returned the maid; "but we never got sae muckle for our butter, nor our cheese, by a penny i' the pund weight, as I got the day. A' the best folks in the