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not your father's surely it's your mother's. The deils in the man said she, divna I ken my father frae my mither. Then, said he, he is with child. The deil's in the man, co' she, for my nither bare a de bairns before, dat's no true, sir: fegs ye're a great liar. Hame she comes, and tell'd Willie her father, that the doctor said he was wi bairn. O Waes me, quo Willie for I hae a muckle wame, an' I fear it's o'er true, O plague on you Janet, for ye're the father o't, an I am sure to die in the bearing o't. Witty Eppie was sent for, as she was a houdie; an she fand a' Willie's wame, to be sure about it. Indeed co Eppie, ye're the first man e'er I saw wi' bairn afore, an how, ye'll bear it, I dinna ken; but I would drink salt-sea water an drown it in my guts: for if men get ance thr gate o' bearing weans themselves, they'll seek nae mair wives. So Willie prank salt sea-water till his guts was like to rive, and out he got to ease