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the wife forked them out as fast us she could into cogs and caps, for there came in a wheen sutor-like fellows, wi' black thumbs and creeshy aprons, that cuttied them all up in a wee time, but they never fash'd wi' us, nor we wi' them; we first got a gill, and then got a het pint; a vow said I Matty, is nae Kate gaun to get a man yet?
Matty. A man laddie, wha wad hae her? a great lazy useless jade; she can do naething but work at husband jobs, card and spin, wash ladies' rooms, and scour gentleman's bonny things, she canna tak a creel on her back, and apply to merchandizing as I do to win a man's bread.
Sawny. I think some of the fishers and her may gree about it.
Matty. A fisher, laddie! hech the fishers has a better look out wi' them, the fishers wad rather hae a pickle good baits to their hooks, and twa three bladders to their lines, than put up with such as her, a stinking prideful jade, altho' I bore her ay scraping and prining keeps her face ay as a Flander's baby, and nae less than ribbons and rings, and her shoou made of red clouts; and deil
