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naething but scoure wash mugs, and gentleman's bonny things, but hissies it is bred amang gentle houses, minds me of my mither's cat, but ye're far costlier to keep, for she wastes neither saep nor water, but spits in her lufe, and washes ay at her face, and whins o' you can do nae ither thing;-and up he gets.
Kate. O Saunders, but ye be short, can ye no stay till my mither comes hame.
Sawny. I've staid lang aneugh for ony thing I'll be the better; and am nae sae short as your tottom of a tailor, that I could stap in my shoe.
Hame he goes in a passion, and to his bed he ran, crying, O death! death! I thought the jade wad a jumped at me. No comfort nor happiness mair for poor me. O mither, gar mak my kist, and bake my burial bread, for I'll die this night, or soon the morn. But early next morning in comes auld Be-go his good-mither, wha had left her daughter in tears, for the slighting of Sawny; and hauls him and his mither away to get a dinner of dead fish, where a' was agreed upon and the wedding to be on Wednesday; no bridal fouks but the twa mithers, and themselves twa.
