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 lown like, besides her crooket fit and bowed legs.

JoekJock [sic]. Ay, but mither, do ye mind sineesince [sic] ye sent me out to gie her the parting kiss at the black hole of the peat-stack; she rave the button frae my breeks, and wad gar me do't; and eouldcould [sic] flesh and blood refuse to do't; I'm sure mither, I eouldcould [sic] ne'er get her wi' bairn wi' my breeks on.

Mith. Na, na, poor simple silly lad; the wean's no yours, ilka ane loups on o' anither, and ye'll get the wyte of a' the bytarts that are round about the eountrycountry [sic]

Up gets Maggy wi' a roar, and rives her hair, and eriescries [sic], O her baekback [sic]! her belly! and baith her sides! The weed and gut gaes through my flesh like lang needles, nails, or elshin irons! Wae be to the day that e'er I saw his face. I had better married a tinkler, or followed the sodgers, as mony an honest man's dochter has done, and lived a better life than I do.

Up gets Jockey, and rins over the rigs for John Rodger's wife, auld Katty and howdy; but or he wan baekback [sic], she parted wi' PatriekPatrick [sic] through perfcetperfect [sic] spite, and then lay twa-fauld o'er a stood in a swoon.

JoekJock [sic]. A-weel, a-weel, sirs, though my firstborn is e'en dead without seeing the light of the warld, ye's a' get bread and cheese to the blythemeat,