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Meſs J. But the queſtion is, whether or no did you promiſe to marry her, when that child was gotten?
Jock. Hout, tout, ſtir ye wad faſh fouk ſpearing a thing, it was her that promiſe to marry me for the getting o't.
Meſs J. An did you not do the like to her?
Jock. A what needed I do the like, when ſhe and my mother did it a', but the wean getting ſhe coudna do that
Maſs J. Indeed John ye ſeem to have been a parcel of louſe livers altogether.
Jock. A Louse ſtir. I wiſh I were louſe yet; better be louſe than to an ill ſtaik.
Meſs J. I ſee it needleſs for me to enquire any further into the matter, I find you are guilty therefore you muſt appear publicly on the ſtool of repentance, on Sabath next, and the two following thereafter, or ye be abſolved from the ſcandal.
Jock Indeed maſter miniſter, am very eaſy about repentance, an for your ſtool, it's a feard am very eaſy about for I'm but baſhfu', an' as I was never guilty of getting byſtarts, cither before, or ſinſye, except in thoughts, words, deeds, an' actions, I think ye may even let me paſs; I ſuffer'd enough wi' the claſh o' the kintry, an' loſs of my ain wean it was nae byſtart, ye canna gar me ſtand for that.
Meſe J. You appear to be ſuch a ſtupid fellow, the like of you ſhould neither bave laful child or baſtard, and I admire that ſuch an ideot as
