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 Mag. Aye, aye, that's your way of doing and his, but it‘s no the way of ither honest fouk; see what the Minister will say to it.

Mith. The Minister is but a mortal man, and there's defections in his members as well as in mine

Mag. Aye, but fouk should aye strive to mortify their members.

''Mith. Aye, aye mortify their members that's your Whiggery indeed. But will you or ony body else, wi' your mortifying of your members prevent what's to come to pass ? I wish I saw the Minister and his Elders, I'se gie them Scripturs for d' his done yet. Tell nae me about the mortifying of members, gin he has gotten a bystart, let her and him feed it be-tween them, an they gie't soup about; but she maun keep it the first quarter and by tha time muckle black Lady will becauft; we sell the  and foster the wean on the cow's milk; that s better mense for a faut, that a' your repenting stools; a wheen Papist rites and rotten cerimonies, fashing fouks wi' sack gowns and buttock-mails, and I dinna ken what. But bide ye will I see the Minister.''

Now Jockey and his mither went into the little byre and held a private meeting, none present but auld Bruckie and the twa brutes the bits o' couties, that she might give him counsel how to behave when he appeared before