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that's the way the like a' you live.

Now sir, says wise Willie, ye manna put them on the black creepy till they be married, they've suffered enough at ae time.

A-weel, a-weel, said they, but they must marry very soon.

I true says Sandy, ye'll be wanting mair clink; foul haet ye do for naething here.

The next exploit was an action at law, against the goodman of Muiredge a farmer who lived near by, that kept sheep and swine. His sheep came down and broke their yards, and ate up their kail; the wild hares they thought belonged to the same man, as they ran to his house when they were hunted. The swine came very often in about their houses, seeing fish guts or ony thing they could get: So it happened when one of the children was sitting easing itself, that one of the swine tumbled it over, and bit a piece out of its backside! The whole town rose in an uproar against