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( 14 ) or there will be nae peace in the houſe; fig it's nonſenſe o nay filler, repent an do't agai too; a bonny advice indeed, maſter Miniſter that's the way you an your ſeſſion live.

Wiſe Willie.-Now, Sir, an you miſte Elder, ye maun put them on the blac creepy till they marrie!; they've ſuffere enough at ae time.

A will awell, ſaid they, but they mu marry very ſoon.

I true y Sandy, ye'll be wanting mai fille, fule late ye do for naething here.

Hame comes Sandy ſtarving o' hunger ye might a caſten a knot on his lang guts His mither was baking peaſe-bannosks, u he gets a lump of her leaven into his mou h Auld thief be in your haggies-bag Sandy kirk-fouk are ay greedy; ye hae been wi' th miniſter a-day, ye'd get a gaid lang grace, h might a gi'en ye meat too, filthy dog that tho is, thou haſt the bulk of a little руе o' m leaven in your guts, it wad a faird our Sand to his dinner, fae wad it een; but an ye kee a reekin' houſe, and a rocking cradle thre eleven years, as I hae done, leſs o' that wi ſerve you yet, baggity beaſt itu is; mair pi it I bore thee now, a hear ye that my dow:

The next exploit was an action at lan againſt the good-man of Muiredge, a farm who lived near-by, that kept ſheep and ſwin His ſheep came down and broke their yards and ate up their kail; and they thought th wid hares belong’d to the ſame men, as the