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13 drives them a' to the back of the door, but yet nane wan out ; then wi' chirting and clapping down comes the clap hallen, and the hen bawk wi' Rab Reid the fiddler, who had crept up beside the hers, 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 supple made their pows baith saft and sair that night but daft Maggy Simpson sat by the fire and picked banes a' the time of the battle: Indeed, quoth she I think ye're a‘ fools but myself, for I came here to get a good supper; and ither folk hae gotten their skin well paid.

By this time up got Jock, the bride-groom, that was Jockey before he was married, but couldna get his breeks; yet wi a horse-nail he tacked his sark-tail be-tween his legs, that name might see what every body should hide ; and ramplingly he cries, Settle ye, or I'll gar my uncle settle ye, and saften your heads wi' an auld supple.

Poor Rab Reid, the fiddler, took a sud-den blast; ssmesome [sic] said he was maw turned wi the fa', for he bocked up a' the barley,