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THE
MAGIC PILL;
OR,
DAVIE and BESS.
A TALE.
Relating Davie’s Courtship to Bess, and how he forsook her. How Nanse, Bessie’s mother, went to the Doctor for a Pill, which she got, with directions how to use it.–How it had the desired effect, by being put into Davie’s pouch by Bess, at a wedding, which discovered Davie’s love to Bess, and they were married.
Likewise, how Nanse, being a widow, went to the Doctor with twa fat hens, to return thanks for the Pill, and how she wanted to buy a Pill for herself, to gain a neibour carle she liked: with an account what the Doctor said to her, and a Recipe how to make up this Pill, and an advice to all young Women how to,; use it.
GLASGOW:
Published by J. Lumsden & Son.
1819
