18 The MERRY TALES of the would have a boar's head. According- ly he went to a carver, and ſaid, can you make me a bare-bead? Yes, ſaid the carver. Then, ſaid he: make me a bare-head, and thou'le have zod for thy hire, I will do it ſaid the carver. So on St Andrew's day before Chrift- mas, the which is called. Yule in Scot- land, the Scot came to London for his boar's head to ſet up at his door, I ſay to thee, ſpeak, ſaid the cotsman, haft thou made me a bare head? Yes, ſaid the carver. He went and brought a man's head of wood that was bare, and ſaid, Sir; here is your bare-head. Ay, ſaid the Scot, The meikle de'il! is this a Lare-head! Yes ſaid the carver. I ſay, ſaid the Scotsman, I will have a bare' head, like a head that follows the ſow that has gryces. Sir, ſaid the car- ver, I don't know ſow and gryces. What, whoreſon, know you not a low that will greet and groan, and cry, a week, a week. What, ſaid the carver? do you mean a pig? Yes, ſaid the Scotsman, let me have her head made in timber, and ſet on her ſcalp, and let her ſing whip whire. The carver aid, he could not. You whoreſon.
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