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 bottles, and glasses, drinking their healths, wishing them joy, ten girls and a boy.—Jockey seeing so many wishing well to his health, coupt up what he gat for to augment his health, and gar him live long, which afterwards coup'd him up, and proved detrimental to the same.

So home they came to the dinner, where his mither presented to them a piping het haggies, made of the creesh of the black boul horned Ewe, boiled in the meikle pot, mixt with bear meal, onions, spice, and mint. This haggies being supt warm, the foaming swats and spice in the liquor, let John's belly a-bizzing like a working vat; and he playing het-fit to the fiddler, was suddenly seized, with a bocking and rebounding, which gave his dinner such a backward ca' that he lost a' but the girt bits, which he scythed thro' his teeth. His mither cried to spence him, and bed him with the bride. His breeks being fil'd, they washed both his hips, and laid him in bed: Pale and ghostly was his face, and closed were baith his een. Ah! cries his mither, a dismal day indeed; his bridal and his burial may be on ae day. Some cuist water on his face, and jag'd' him wi' a needle, till he began to rouse himself, and then lisp out some broken word: Mither, mither cries Jockey whar am I now? Whar are ye now, my bairn, says his mither, ye're bedes, and I'll bring the bride to you.