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All things were got ready, & next week Sleeky Willie the weaver and him came to 'gree the marriage, and stay all night with the bride, and teach John good manners, for when John was hungry he minded his meat mare than his good behaviour, and he never was fu' till the dish was tume. Willie the weaver was to tramp on his fit when he thought he had suppet enough; so all things being agreed upon short and easy terms, and the wedding day set, they were to be cried three times on Sunday, and quietly married on Monday, neither piper nor fiddler to be employed but with awa (illegible text) the minister's, and into the bed amang the blankets; Ha, ha, cried John, that's the best o't a.
Now every thing being concluded and proposed, the supper was brought, a large fat haggis, the very smell wad a done a hungry body gude, but John had got only twa or three soups, until one of the butcher's meikle dogs tramped on John's fit, which he took to be the weaver, and then he wad eat nae mair. After supper they went to bed,
