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(illegible text) kirk ſouks is ay greedy, ye been wis the minister the day. ye'd get a good lang grace, he might a gien the meat thou filthy dog that tu is, thoa hait the bulk of a little whalpie o' my leaven in your guts, it wad been four good bancocks an'a ſcone, and a ſaird oar Sunday's dinner, ſae wad it een, but an ye keep a reeken houſe an a rocking cradle three eleven years as I ha'e done leſs o' that will fair ye, baggity beaſt it tu it, mair that I bore thee now, hear ye that may dow. The next exploit was an action at law against the goodman of Muit-edge, a farmer that lived near by, that kept ſheep and ſwime, his ſheep came down and broke the yards and ate up their kail; the wild hares they thought belonged to the ſame man, as they ran towards his houſe when they were hunted; the ſwine came very often in and about their houſes ſeeling fiſh guts or any thing they could get, ſo it happened that one of their children fitting calling itſelf, noor the ſwine tumbles it over and bites a piece out of the child's backſite; the whole town role in an uproar, and after grankie na they called her, they catched her and took her before wiſe Willy: Willy takes an axe and cuts two or three inches off her long noſe: new ſays Willy, crow I have made thee ſomething Christian like, trow had ſic a long mouth and noſe before it wad a frighted a very de'il to look at ye, but now ye're fara like a
