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and five peeks of beer on the Laird's Bawsy, and he's as bilshy a beast as in a' the barony.
Mag. Ay, but my mither is aye angry at ony body that evens themselves to me, an it binna them she likes, indeed she bade me tak ony body, if it wasna auld tottering Tammy; for his beard is aye brown wi' sucking tobaeeo, and slavers a' the breast of his fecket.
Jock. O Maggy take me, and I'll tell you what I hae. First my father left me, when he died fifty merks, twa sacks, twa pair of sunks; the hens and the gaun gear was to be divided between me and my mither, and if she died first, a' her gear was to come in among mine, and if I died before her, a' my gear was to come back to her again, and her to marry anither man, if she could get him. But since 'tis happened sae, she is to gie me Brucky and the black mare, the half of the cogs, three spoons, four pair of blankets, and a cannas: she's to big a twabey to her ain gavel, to be a dwelling house to me and my wife, aud I'm to get the wee byre at the end of the raw, to hand my eow and twa eouties; the half of the barn, and a bed of the kail-yard, as lang as she leaves, and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich as e'er my father was before me.
