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 8 THE PROCEEDINGS OF

ter on his face, and jagged him with a needle; till he be gan to ronze himſelf up, and rap out broken words, Mither, mither, where am I now? Whar are ye, my bairn, ſays his mither, ye're beddet, and I'll bring the bride to you. Beddet! and is my bridal done elſe? Ay, ſaid ſhe, here's the bride to ly down wi' you: na, sa, ſaid he, I'll no ly with that unco woman indeed, if it binna heads and thraws, the way I lay wi' my mither; O fy dinna affront yourſelf. The bride fa's a crying. O mither, mither, was this the way my father guided you the firſt night? Na, na, thy father was a man o' manners and better mettle, pour thing, Megǃ thou's cau'd thy hogs to a bonny market. A bonny market! ſays hi mither, a ſhame fa' you and her baith, he's wordy o her though he was better nor what ſhe is, or e'er wi be. His friends and her friends being in a mix'd multitude, ſome took part and ſome took her's, there t battle began in the clap of a hand, being a very fierce tumult, which ended in blood, and ſtruck ſo hard with ſtones, ſticks, beetles, and barrow-trams, pigs, pots and trenchers were fying like bombs and grenades.

The crook, bouls and tongs were all employed as weapons of war: till down came the bed with a crack, like mou o' peats! So this diſturbed the treading.

THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF OUR JOHN.

PART II.

NOW though all the ceremonies of Jockey and Maggy's wedding were ended, when they were fairly bedded before a wheen rattling unruly witneſſes wha dang down the bed aboon them: the battle ſtill increaſed, and John's work turned out to be very wonderful; for he made Janet, that was his mither's laſs the laſ year, grow like an Elſhin ſhaft, aud got his Maggy wi bairn forby.

The hamſheughs were very great, until auld m