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 wi' a stiff, stiff back, as he had been a man of sixty! Every one looked at him, thinking he was some old stranger, who knew not the stool of repentance by another seat, so that he passed the first day unknown but to vary few; yet, on the second, it came to be so well known, that the whole parish, and many more, came to see him; which caused such a confusion, that he was absolved, and got his children baptized the next day.—But there happened a tulzie between the twa mothers, who would have both their names to be John A-weel, says auld John, their father, to the Minister, A deed, Sir, ye maun ca' the tane John, and the tither Jock, an' that will please baith these enemies of mankind.

Minist. Now, John, you must never kiss any other woman but your own wife; live justly, like anither honest man, and you'll come to die well.

Jock. A black end on me Sir, an ever I lay an unlawfu' leg upon a hissie again, an they sude lie down to me, as lang as our Maggy lasts? and for dying there's nae fear o' that, for I'll no get fair play, ye an a' the aulder fouk in the parish be not dead before me. So I hae done wi' ye, now, Fareweel, Sir.