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your bell-man baith. O but this be an ill warld indeed, when poor honest souk maun pay for making use o' their ain a-: Ye misca the poor deil a-hint his back, an' gies him de wyte of a de ill in de kintry, bastard bairns and every thing; an' if it be sae as ye say, ye may thank de deil for that four pund an' a groat I hae gien ye; that gars your pot play brown, an' gets you jockey-coats, an' purl-handed sarks, an' white headed-staves, when my father's pat wallops up nought but bear an' blue water.
The woman is mad, said they, for this money is all given to the poor of the parish!!
Jan.-The poor of the parish! fint a haet ye gie to them but wee pickles o' pease meal, didna I see their pocks: an' the minister's wife gies naething ava to unca beggars, but bids them gae to their ain parishes; an' yet ye'll tak the purse frae us, for naething duti playing the loon a wee or we be
