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Jan-A, by my fegs, sir, that's a great lie ye're telling now, for the deil was nae there that I saw, nor ony body else, to bid us do ae thing or anither; we lo'ed ither unco weel for a lang time before that, an' syne we tell'd ither, an agreed to marry ither, like honest folk; then, might na we learn to do the thing married souk do without the den help- ing us?
Whisht, whisht, said they, ye should be scourged, fause loon quean, it thou is, ye're speaking nonsense.
Jan-De deil's i' the carles, for you and your minister are liars, when ye say it is de deil was helping Sandy and me to get de bairn.
Come, come, said they, pay down the Kirk-dues, and come back to the tool the morn; the price is four pund, and a groat to the bell-man.
Jan- The auld thief speed the darth n't, sir, far less might sair you and
