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 bloody mouth. With that he gets an auld flail, and rives awa' the supple, then drives them a' to the back o' the door, but yet nane wan out; then wi' chirten and chappen, down comes the clay hallen and the hen bawk, wi' Rab Reid the fiddler, who had crept up beside the hens for the preservation of his fiddle.

Ben comes the bride when she got on her coat, clappet Rabby's shoulder, and bade him spare their lives, for their was blood enough shed in ae night, quoth she; and that my beard can witness quoth he,—So they all came in obedience to uncle Rabby, for his souple made their pows baith saft and fair that night; but daft Maggy Simpson sat by the fire and picket banes a' the time o' the battle: Indeed, quoth she, I think you're a' fools but mysel, for I came here to get a good supper, and ither fouk has gotten their skins well paid.

By this time up, got John, the bridegroom, that was Jockey before he was married, but coudna get his breeks; yet wi' a horse nail he tacket his fark tail between his legs, that nane might foe what every body should hide; and rampingly he cries, Settle ye, or I'll gar my uncle settle ye, and fasten your heads wi' my auld suppple.

Poor Rab Reid the fiddler, took a sudden blast; for said he was maw turned wi' the fa', for he