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Wilt though rife an' gi' the beasts a bit; you minds na' them, I wat man.
Grump, grump, quo' Sawny, they got their supper an hour after I got mine, shot (illegible text) dead come on them, an' they get a bit (illegible text)e me till they work for't.
Sawny. But O mither, I been dreaming that I was married, an' i' the bed wi' the (illegible text)de; I wonder gin it be true: Od! I (illegible text)ver got sic fun! What wilt be, think ye? How auld am I, mither? Do ye think I'm for marrying yet? Fegs am a mind to (illegible text)'t, but the four saucy hissies 'ill no hae me, then well enough.
Mither. Hae you lad, mony a hungry heart (illegible text)d be blyth o' you; but there was never ca'd Jacky but there was a sea(illegible text)bbit Jenny him yet: dinna be fear'd lad.
Sawny. A hech, mither, He no be lordly, I sud tak a beggar wife aff the hi'gate. I'll tell you something it'm ay thinking bat ye manna tell the nibours, for the (illegible text)elds wad ay jam(illegible text) me wi't.
Mither. Wad I tell o' thee! I wad tell mysel' as soon.
Sawny. Do ye mind, mither, that day I (illegible text)d to the Pans, I came in by Auld Mattie's (illegible text)r countryman's, the l(illegible text)ife wife, it came o' the town ye came frae, the wife it (illegible text), Be-go-laddie, I gade there, and she (illegible text)na in, an' her daughter kend me; she
