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2d. What I now see, and am witness to.
3d. What I have heard do hear, and cannot help; I mean, the difference between the old women and the young.
4th. Conclude with an advice to Young Men and Young Women how to avoid the buying of Janet Juniper’s stinking butter which will have a rotten ritt on their stomach as they live.
5th. The first thing, then, I see and observe is, That a wheen daft giddy headed, cock-nosed, juniper-nebbed mothers, bring up a wheen sky-racket, dancing daughters, a’ bred up to be ladies, without so much as the breadth of their lufe of land! It is an admiration to me, where the lairds are a’ 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 pet is brought up like a motherless lamb, or a parrot in a cage; they learn nothing but to prick and sew, and fling their feet when the
