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 gaed wud, and looked as woeful like  he had been tod-lorie come frae  lambs, with his bloody mouth. that he gets an auld flail and rives awa the supple, then drives  a' to the back of the door, but  wan out; then wi' chirting and  of hands down comes the clay, and the henbawk wi' Rab Reid  fiddler, who had crept up, beside  hens, for the preservation of his

Ben comes the bride, when she got her coat, clappet Rabby on the, and bade him spare their lives,  their was blood enough shed in ae , quo she; and that my beard can  quoth he. So they all came obedience to uncle Rabby, for his  made their pows baith saft and  that night; but daft Maggy  sat by the fire and picked banes a'  time of the battle. Indeed, quoth. I think ye're a' fools, but myself, I came here to get a good supper,  ither folk hae gotten their skins well paid.