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Secondly, What I now see, and am
witness to.
Thirdly, What I have heard, do hear,
and cannot help; I mean the difference
between the old women and the young.
Fourthly, Conclude with an advice
to young men and young women how
to avoid the buying of Janet Juniper's
stinking butter* which will have a rot-
ton rift on their stomach as long as
they live.
First. The first thing, then, I see and
observe, is, That a wheen daft giddy-
headed, cock-nos’d, juniper-nebbed mo-
thers, bring up a lot of sky-racket, dan-
cing daughters, a' bred up to be ladies,
without so much as the breadth of their
lufe of land! It's an admiration to me
where the lairds are to come frae that's
to be coupled to them! Work, na, na,
my bairn must not work, she's to be a
Lady; they ca’ her Miss; I must have
her ears bor'd, says old Mumps the mo-
ther. Thus the poor pett's brought up
like a motherless lamb, or a parrot in
a cage; they learn nothing put to prick
and sew, and fling their feet when the
* A nick-name given to the wife's daughter
that no man will marry, because stuff'd full of
laziness, self-conceited, and stinking pride; or if
she be married, she'll lie like stinking butter on his
stomach, while he lives.
