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Secondly, What I now see, and am witness to.
Thirdly, What I have heard, do hear, and cannot help; I mean the difference between the old women and the young.
Fourthly, Conclude with an advice to young men and young women how to avoid the buying of Janet Juniper’s stinking butter[1] which will have a rotton rift on their stomach as long as they live.
First. The first thing, then, I see and observe, is, That a wheen daft giddy-headed, cock-nos’d, juniper-nebbed mothers, bring up a lot of sky-racket, dancing daughters, a’ bred up to be ladies, without so much as the breadth of their lufe of land! It’s an admiration to me where the lairds are to come frae that’s to be coupled to them! Work, na, na, my bairn must not work, she’s to be a Lady; they ca’ her Miss; I must have her ears bor’d, says old Mumps the mother. Thus the poor pett’s brought up like a motherless lamb, or a parrot in a cage; they learn nothing put to prick and sew, and fling their feet when the
- ↑ A nick-name given to the wife’s daughter that no man will marry, because stuff’d full of laziness, self-conceited, and stinking pride; or if she be married, she’ll lie like stinking butter on his stomach, while he lives.
