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 oot, O mither, mither! whar are ye, ? Poor thing, Meg thou's ca'd hogs to a bonny market. A bonny ! says Jockey's mither; a shame you and her baith, he is worthy of  though she were better nor what  is, or e'er will be. His friends and friends being a mixed multitude  took his part, some took her's,  did a battle begin in the clap of  hand, being a very fierce tumult, which ended in blood; they struck so  with stones, sticks, beetles, and  trams; pigs, pots, stoups, and and trenchers, were flying like bombs and grenades; the crook, bouls, and tangs, were all employed as weapons of war, till down came the bed, with a great mow of peats! So this disturbed a' the diversions at Jockey's bedding, and the day was beginning to break in the east before the hurly-burly was over.

Now, though all the ceremonies of Jockey and Maggy's wedding were ended, when they were fairly bedded before a wheen rattling unruly witnesses,