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 and Jenny, to the Session, and to see how the stool of repentance wad set them. No sooner had they entered the door, but Maggy fa's a gretting and wringing her hands! Jockey’s mither fell a flyting, and he a-rubbing his lugs, and riving his hair, crying out, O gin I were but a half ell higher, I sud be a sodger or it be long; an gie me a good flail or a corn fork, I sud kill Frenchmen anew before I gaed to face yon flyting Ministers, and be set up like a warld's wonder, on their cock-stool or black-stool; and wha can bide the shame when every body looks to them, wi' their sacken gowns or sarks on them like the piece of an old can'as prickt about a body, for naething but what every body does amaist or they be married as well as me.

Mith. My man, Johnny, ye're no the first that has done it, an ye'll no be last; e'en mony o' the ministers has done it themselves, hout ay e'en your father and I did it mony a time

Mag. Ay, ay, that gars your son be so good, o't as he is; the thing thats bred in the flesh, is ill to pit ont o' the bane.

Mith. Daft woman what way wad the warld stand if fouk wadna mak use o' ither? 'Tis the thing that's natural, bairns-getting; therefore it's no to be scunner'd at.

Mag. Ay, ay, but an they be for the like o' that they should marry.