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Rh But Mally never said a word but, "Oh, gin ye saw falit I see!" The giant's wife pleaded that Mally would take her up into the pyock till she would see what Mally saw. So Mally took the shears and cut a hole in the pyock, and took out the needle and thread with her, and jumpt down, and helpit the giant's wife up into the pyock, and sewed up the hole.

The giant's wife saw nothing, and began to ask to get down again; but Mally never minded, but hid herself at the back of the door. Home came the giant, and a great big tree in his hand, and he took down the pyock, and began to lay upon it. His wife cried, "It's me, man;" but the dog barkit and the cat mewt, and he did not know his wife's voice. But Mally did not want her to be killed, so she came out from the back of the door, and the giant saw her, and he after her; and he ran, and she ran, till they came to the "Brig o' ae hair," and she wan ower, but he cuddna; and he said, "Wae worth you, Mally Whuppie! lat you never come again," "Never mair, carle," quo she, "will I come again to Spain."

So Mally took the ring to the king, and she was married to his youngest son, and she never saw the giant again.

The Bannookie.

There was a little wee mannie an a far less wifie, and they bakit a bannockie and set it oot t' queel. An it geed rockie for rowie an ower the mill-knowie, till it cam t' twa wall-washers hungry eneugh, an they said, "Ye're welcum, bonnie bannockie, and fae fahr come ye?" "Oh," says the bannockie, "I cam fae a little mannie an a far less wifie, an I think I'll win fae you yet." An they flang their queeds (tubs) at the bannockie, but missed it. An it geed rockie for rowie an ower the mill-knowie till it cam t twa barn-thrashers, hungry eneugh. "Ye're welcum, bonnie bannockie, an fae fahr come ye?" "Oh," says the bannockie, "I come fae a little wee mannie an a far less wifie, an fae twa wall-washers, an I think I'll win fae you yet." So they flang their flails at it, but misst it; an it geed rockie for rowie ower the mill-knowie till it cam to the tod's hole, hungry eneugh. An it said, "Ye're welcum, bonnie bannockie, and fae