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( 8 ) Now, ſome ſay this hiſtory is too ſatirical out is according to the knowledge ofe times, not to ſay any place by anger; old wives will tell yon set of many ſuch ſtorie of the devil appearing to their grandfather and grandmothers, dead wives coming again to viſit their families long after being dead: ſo thi' Duck have n onc noted fo droll exploit, tho' now more known and a place ſaid to produce the handieſt watermen or lors of any town Scots coaſt Yet many of the old people in it ſtill retai the old tinctere of their ancient and uncultivated ſpeech, as, Bego laddie, alſo a fier nature, if you off wives wher their College ſtands, they'll tell you. if you noſe were in their a- your month would be at the door of it.

Now it happened when wiſe willie grey old, he took a great ſwelling in his wame and caſting on his kail, collops, and caul fiſh; that working could ſtay on his ſtomach and a ſtout ſtomach had he, for crabs, head and ſcate-broc. or broſe in a bridal-morning yet it failed him, and be fell ſick. Non could cure him, or tell what ail'd him, th a mountebank ſtage-docter came to Kirkcaldy, that could ſide by people's piſs, the trouble of their perſon; and wile willie hearing of his fame, piſſed into a bottle, and feel it away with his daughter: the bottle being urcorked, his daughter ſpilt it by the way and to conceal her ſloth in ſo doing, piſſed