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breeks, and a ragged doublet, gade always wi’ his bosom bare, sometimes had but (illegible text) gartan, a lingle, or rash-rape, was go(illegible text) enough for Sawny; his very belly was sun-burnt, and brown like a piper’s bag, the head of an auld drush; and yet he (illegible text) a ruddy lown in the face, and his be(illegible text) began to sprout out like herrin banes: took thick brose to his breakfast, and b(illegible text) and ale through the day, and when the c(illegible text) fell’d dear, when the wind was cauld, (illegible text) bought an oven farl, and twa Dumbar v(illegible text)ders, or a Glasgow Magistrate, which (illegible text) fish-wives ca’s a waslen herrin'.
His mither, auld Mary, plagued him in the morning, got up when the keckled, ranged the ribs, blew her snuff box, primed her nose, kindled her tob(illegible text) pipe, and at every puff breathed out fre(illegible text) against her hard fortune, and a lanely life; an' wad aften cry out, O but a W(illegible text) be a poor name! I live but in a wilder(illegible text) in this lang lonen; mony a man gaes b(illegible text) door, but few looks in to poor auld M(illegible text) Hooh hey! will I never win out o(illegible text) weary'd life? —— Wa', Sawny man Sawny man; wilt thou na rife the (illegible text) The sun's up, an' a' the neighbours about: Willie and Charlie is to th(illegible text) an hour syne, an'ha'f-gate hame ag(illegible text)
