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( 6 ) Hout, hout, ſaid witty Eppie, ye're a for thegither, it's but ane o' things it my Lord more wears upo' her luſe.

At another time one of the wives four a hare, win its leg broken, lying among kail in the yard: ſhe kot knowing what was, cried out to her neighbours to come a ſee it! So se ſaid it was a gentleman's c or my Lady's lap-dog or a ſheep's you kitlen, becauſe it had ſaft horns. Na, na, f wiſe willie, it's ane of the maukins the gentlemen's dogs worries: how will we wit? Staith co' they all, we'll ſing the wo aff, an mak fiſh and ſauce o’t to our paari Na, no, ſaid witty Eppie, het er gie't to m Lord, an he'll ſtap an iron ſtick thro' the gu o't, an gar't rin round afore the fire till it roaſted. Na, na, ſaid wiſe willie, we'll r do that indeed, for my Lord wad make a' dogs, an gar us rin thro' a' the count ſeeking maukins till him.

It happened in a dark winter morning, th two of the wives were going to Dyſart to fel their fiſh; and on the road-ſide, there happened to be fome tinker's aſs tathered. Th poor aſs ſeeing the two wives coming wit their creels thought it was the tinkers coming to fit or relieve him, fell a-crying! Th wives threw their fiſh away, and ran home like mad perſons, crying they had ſeen the de'il, ay the very horned de'il, and that h ſpoke to them, but they didna ken who he ſaid, for it was worſe words than a high