Page:Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their bedding.pdf/11

 wind, and the elearingclearing [sic] their water. The friends and good neighbours went wi' John to the Kirk, where Maggy ehancedchanced [sic] to meet him, and was married by the minister. The twa companies joined the gither, and came hame in a crowd; and at every change-house they ehaneedchanced [sic] to pass by, Providence stopt their proeeedingproceeding [sic] with full stoups, bottles, and glasses, drinking their healths, wishing them joy, ten girls and a boy. Jockey seeing so many wishing well to his health, eouptcoupt [sic] up what he got for to augment his health, and gar him live long, whiehwhich [sic] afterwards couped him up, and proved detrimental to the same.

So hame they came to the dinner, where his mither presenting to them a piping het haggis, made of the creesh of the black boul horned ewe, boiled in the meikle pot, mixt with bear-meal, onions, spieespice [sic], and mint. This haggis being supt warm, the foaming swats and spice in the liquor set John's belly a-bizzing like a working fat; and he playing het-fit to the fiddler, was suddenly seized with a bocking and rebounding, whiehwhich [sic] gave his dinner suehsuch [sic] a backward ca', that he lost a' but the girt bits, which he scythed thro' his teeth. His mither cried to speneespence [sic] him, and bed him with the bride. His breeks being filed, they washed both his hips and laid him in his bed. Pale and ghostly was his face, and closed were