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send them hame wanting the skin, as he did Sowen Tammy's see Sandy, for co in o' his pease, he took aff the poor laddies coat, an sae did he And Willie said, if you were a sow my Lord, an me sitting driting an you to bite my arse, sudna I hae amends o' you for that? od my Lord ye wadna hae a bit out o your arse for twenty merks: ye maun een gar Muiredge gie ten merks to buy a plaster to heal the poor bit means arse again.

Well said, Wilie, says my Lord; but who puts on the sow's nose again.

A fegs, my Lord, said Willie, she's honester like wentin't, an she'll bite nae mae arses wi't. An ye had hane a nose, my Lord as lang as the sow had, ye'd been obliged to ony body it was cut a piece af't.

A gentleman coming past near their town asked one of their wives where their college stood said she, gie me a shilling, an I'll let you see baith-sides o't. He gives her the shilling, thinking to see something curious. Now