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PART II.

Now wiſe willie had a daughter called Rolling coughing Jenny, becauſe ſhe ſpok thick, ſix words at three times, half ſenſe half nonſenſe, as her own records will ſtill bear witneſs. She being with child, wa delivered of a fine daughter; and all the wives in the town cried out, Be-go laddie it's juſt like its ain father, Lang Sandy Taſon we ken be its noſe; for Sandy had a very great muckle red noſe like a lobſter's tae bowed at the point like a hawk's neb, and Sandy himſel' ſaid, that it was ſurely his or ſome other body's, but he had uſed a' his birr at the getting o't, to try his abilities being the firſt time e'er he was at fic a buſineſs before; and when he had done a' mar cou'd do at is, ſaid it was nonſenſe; an ſhame ſa' him but he was rather row his boat round the baſs and back again, or he'd do the like again: For wiſe willie gade wude at the wean, and ſaid it had mair ill nature in' than the auldeſt wife about the town; it piſſed the bed, aud ſhit the bed, ſkirled like a wild cat, and kept him frae his night's reſt; and a' the auld haggs about the town ca'd him Sandy the bairn's daddy; and a' the young