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No w it happened when Wise Willie turned auld, he took a great swelling in his wame, and casting up his kail, scollops and cauld fish, that nothing would stand on his stamoch; and a stout stamoch he had, for crabs heads, and scate-bree, er brose in a bridal morning; yet it fail'd him, and he fell sick. None could cure him, nor tell whrt ail'd him till a mountebank doctor came to Kirkcaldy, that could judge by people's piss the trouble of their person. Wise Willie hearing of his fame, pissed into a bottle, and sent it away with his daughter. The bottle being uncorked, his daughter spilt it on the road, and to conceal her sloth in so doing, pissed in it herself, and on she goes till she came to the stage-doctor when she cried out aloud, Sir doctor, Sir doctor, Sir doctor, here is a bottle of my father's pish, he has a sair guts and needs na drite ony, but spues he eats. It's true I tell you, my do a. The doctor looks at it then says, it's