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a burial, a clean face and hands, and (illegible text) less than a gun-sleev’d linen sark on him which made his cheeks to shine like sherney weight, and the Colliers a' swon(illegible text) he was a bra' as a horse gawn to a cow dredgy.
But Sawny came aff wi' his coals whistling, and whipping up the poor beast e'e(illegible text) as outrageous as ony ram at riding time. Well might ony body seen there was a ston(illegible text) in Sawny's nose, light were it like; fo(illegible text) no sooner had he sell'd his coals, than he left his horse to come hame wi' a nibou(illegible text) callan, and gade keeking up the Cowgate and thro' the cl ses, seeking auld Bego, b(illegible text) good-mither to be; then in thro' the fish market, where he bought a lang herring an' twa baps, a pair of suters auld shoon greesed black and made new, to make h(illegible text) feet feasible-like, as he kend the lass was (illegible text) look at them. For his mither tell'd him the women look'd ay to the men's legs (illegible text) they marry'd them, and the well legged louns gade best aff.
So Sawny came swaggering through the shell-wives, but she was nae there; but coming down the town, beneath the guard meets auld. Be-go in(illegible text) in the (illegible text), w(illegible text) cried out, Hey laddie, my d(illegible text)v, how's you mither honest Mary? I thank you c(illegible text) Sawny she's meat-heal, an ay working
