( 7 ) whalps a young horfe; Gofb woman it wad be ill far'd to fee a woman fitting wi‘ a young 'orfe on her knee, dighting it's arfe, and gien it the pap. The next occafion was lang Sandy and Roloching Jenny‘s wedding, which held three days and twa nights, my lord and my lady with feveral gentlennen and ladies attended for diverfion‘s fake, the piper of Kirk- caldy and the fiddler of King horn, were both bidden by Wife Willy the brides father, and if ony ane came to play unbidden, Wife Willy fwore they fhould fit unfair‘d for thefe two fhould get a‘ the filler that was to be gi‘en that day ; the dinner and dorder-meat fat a' in Eppie's college, and the -dancing ftood in twa
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rings before the door, and the firft day with dunting and dangling of their heels, dang down a'the fea dyke, fome tumbled in, and fome held by the ftanes, the fiddler fell over the lags and druket a‘ his fiddle, the brings gied out of order, and the tripes turn'd foft like pudding fkins. fo the bag pipe has to do for a', and the fiddler got nought to do but fup kail, aryl pike banes wi‘ the reft of them. Now my Lord's cook was to order the kettle, but