14
some took his part, some took her's, there did a battle begin in the clap of a hand, being a very fierce tumult, which ended in blood; they struck so hard with stones, sticks, beetles, and barrow trams; pigs, pots, stoups, trenchers, were flying like bombs and granadoes; the crook, bouls, and tangs, were all employed as weapons of war, till down came the bed, with a great mou of peats! So this distubed a' the deversions at Jockey's bedding, and the sky was beginning to break in the east before the hurly-burly was over.
PART II.
Now though all the ceremonies of Jockey and Maggy's wedding were ended, when they were fairly bedded before a wheen rattling unruly witnesses, who dang doon the bed aboon them; the battle still increased, and John's work turned out to be very wonderful, for he made Janet, that was his mither's servant lass last year, grew like an elshen haft and got his ain, Maggy wi' bairn forby. The humsheughs were very great, until auld uncle Rabby came in to redd them; and a sturdy auld fellow he was; he stood lively with a stiff rumple, and by strength of his arms rave them aye sunder, flinging the taen east and the tither west, till they stood a' round about like as many for foughten cocks and no ane durst steer another for him. Jockey's mither
