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 spread it round the kintry; and every body's mouth was filled wi' Jockey and Jenny and how Maggy had parted wi' bairn.

At last Mes John Hill hears of the foul fact, and sends the Elder of that quarter, and Clinkum-Bell, the grave maker to summon Jockey and Jenny, to the Sessions, and see how the stool of repentance wad set them. No sooner had they entered the door



but Maggy fa's a greeting and wringing her hands, Jockey's mither fell a-flyting, and he himself a-rubbing his lugs and riving his hair, crying out, O gin I were but a half an ell higher, I sud be a sodger