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(illegible text) De de'ils i the carles for you and your (illegible text) nifter is liars, when ye fay that the de‘il was helping Sandy and me get de bairn. Come, come faid they, pay down the kirk dues and come back to the ftool the morn, four pound and a groat to the. bell man. Jan. The auld chief fpeed the dearth o’t, ftir, for lefs might fair you and your bell man baith, O but this be a hard warld indeed when poor honeft folks maun pay for making use o‘ their a—, ye mifca ay de poor deil ahint his back, and gie him de wyte o’ a de ill that is done in the kintry, baftard bairns and every thing, and if it be as you fay you may thank de deil for that guide four pound and a groat I hae gi'en you, that gars onr pots boil brown and,get jockey- coats, purl handed farks, and white headed ftaves, i when my fathers pot wallops up rough bear and blue water. The woman’s mad, fa id they, for this money is all given to the poor of the parifh. Jan. The poor o’ the parifh had fhe, and that's the way o-t, a dent hait-yj-gie them, but we pickles'l o' peafe meal, didna I fee‘t in their pocks and de mi- nifter's wife gies naething ava to unca beggars, but bids them gang hame to their ain parifh, and yet ye‘ll tak de purfe frae poor fouks for naething but playing the laod a wee or they be married, and fyne coc's them up to be looked on and laught at by ever body. a deil fpeed you and your juftice ftir; hute, tute, ye are a coming on me now like a wheen colly dogs, hunting awa a poor ragget chapman frae the door, and out fhe comes, curling and greeting : Sanday's next called upon and in he goes. Min.Now Sanders, yon (illegible text) tell us how this child was gotten.
