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himself among the kail; and with the terrible noise of his farting, up starts a mauken behind him, which thought it was shot: Willie seeing her jump o'er the dyke, thought it was a child brought forth, and cries out, come back my dear and be christened, and dinna rin to the hills to be a Pagan. So Willie grew better every day thereafter, being brought to bed in the kail-yard; but his daughter was brought to bed some months after, which was the cause of the doctor's mistake.

Now Wise Willie had a daughter ca'd Roloughin' Couching Jenny, because she spak thick, sax words at 3 times, halt sense and half nonsense, as her own records will bear witness, She being with child, was delivered of a bonny lassie; and all the wives in the town cried out, Be-go laddie, its just lik its ain father, Lang Sandy Ta'son (or Thomson) we ken by its lang nose, or Sandy had a great