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Jan. De deil's i' the carles, for you and your ministers are liars, when ye say it is de deil it was helping Sandy and me to get de bairn.

Come, come, said they, pay down the Kirk-dues, and come back to the stool the morn; the price is four pund and a groat to the bell-man.

Jan. The auld thief speed the dearth o't sir, far less might sair you and your bell man baith. O but this be a warld indeed, when poor honest fouk maun pay for making use o' their ain a-; Ye misca the poor deil ahint his back, an' gies him de wyte of a' de ill in de kintry, bastard bairns and every thing; an if it be sae as ye say, ye may thank de diol for that four pund and a groat I hae gien ye; that gars your pat play brown, an gets ye jockey coats, and purl-handed sarks, an white headed staves, when