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en holes it wadna tak the inclination out o' thee; for thou'll do't again, but its no be wi' my bairn I'ſe warrand thee, an' now Johnny come awa hame to thy hauf marrow an' uſe thy freedom as formerly, thou'll hae weans thick and three fauld; I'ſe mak thee a decoction of cock ſtanes, lamb ſtanes, and chicken broe, will gar thee cock thy tail like a mevics an' canter like a Galloway toop.

The Vth and Laſt PART.

Being an Account of Jockey's Mother's Death and Burial; With an Elegant Elegy and Epitaph on that occaſionThe Baptiſing of his two Children, and how he mounted the ſtool.

AS Jockey and his mither came hobling hame together on the out-ſide of the auld doil'd beaſt his mither's black mare; a waefu' misfortune befel them:-Her landerlets being wickedly wet, in John Davie's well that morning, and it being a froſty night, her coats was a' frozen round about her, and the hard harn ſark plaid clash between her legs like a wet diſh clout, her teeth gad like a rattle, bag till about haf gate hame, then he was ſuddenly ſeized wi' a rumbling in her muckle bag, what we kintry fouks ca's ruſh i' the guts; Jockey was faſn'd helping her aff and helping her on, foul, far and dirty was the road, having like half t-d at every adder length.

Jock. Deed mither, I doubt death has ſomething to do wi' you, for there's a rumbling, in a your wame like an auld wife kirning.

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