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came frae, the wife that says "Be-go laddie", I gade there, an she wasna in, and her doughter kent me; she was unco kind and made me fat, fat brose out o' the lee side o' her kail pot: there was baith beef and paunches in't; od they smell'd like ony haggis, and shin'd a' like a gould fac'd waist-coat: figs I suppet till I was like to rive o' them and had a rift o' them the morna'day; when I came out she spier'd for you, mither, and I said ye was gaily. And she looked to me and leuch ay, and gripet my shake-bane, and said I would be a sturdy fallow yet.———I looked to her, and thought I liked her, and thinks on't aye since syne, she leugh, and bade me seek out a coal driver for her, for she didna like to carry a fish creel.
Mither. Forsooth, Sawny, I'll gie my twa lugs for a lavrock's egg, if she binna in love with thee, and that will be a bargain.
Sawny. An' upon my word mither, she's a sturdy kimmer, well worth the sneaking after; she has a dimple in every cheek, an ane on her chin, twa legs like twa posts, and haunches like
