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done a' that man could do at it, he said it was a' nonsense; and shame fa' him but he would rather row his boat round the Bass an' back again, or bed do the like again. For Wise Willie gade wude at the bairn, and said it had mair ill-nature than the auldest wife about the town; for it pissed the bed, shit the bed, and skirl'd like a wild cat, and kept him frae his night's rest. A the auld hags about the town ca'd him Sandy the bairn's daddy; and a' the young gillie-gaukies o’lassies held out their fingers, and cried Ti hi hi Sandy, the Kirk will kittle your hips for that. An' after a, the blear-eyed bell-man came bladdering about the buttock meal, summoned him and her before the halyband, a court that was held in the kirk on Saturday morning. All the herd laddies round about cried, Ay, ay, Sandy, pay the bull-siller, or we'll cut the cow's tail awa. So poor Sandy suffered sadly in the flesh, beside the penalty and kirk penance. But Wise Willie had pity on them,
