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Habbie," quo' the Laird: hoo is a' wi' ye? are no coming up to play us a spring on the pipes at night?" "It wadna leuk vera weel, Laird, me to be seen playing on the pipes at your house and my ain wife lying a corpse at hame “What! is Janet deed ? quo' the Laild “ Atweel is she," quo' Habbie; "and I'm sure it couldna hae happent on a waur time, there neither meat nor siller iu the house; a hoo to get her decently aneath the yird I'm sae I dinna ken." “ Dinna vex yoursel' about that quo' the Laird, (giving him some money) “thee is a trifle for you, in the mean time, and come to the house by and by, and I shall see what a he done for you. Habbie thanked the Laird his kindness, bade him good day, and cam a hame, gayan weel pleast wi' what he had gotta, and sen's Janet oot wi' the bottle for mair whusz to carry on the spree. In the mean time, has gangs the Laird, whaur the first thing that! heard, was, that Habbie Simpson was deil “Na, na," quos he, “it's no Habbie; its or Janet. It's Habbie,“ quo the Lady, “was Janet here this morning hersel', and telt me? and didna she get awa some speerits and biscuit as she said there was naething in the house “ And didna I meet Habbie, just as I was comin hame, when he telt me Janet was deed. Bit see how it is--they are at their auld tricks again Bit come, we'll awa to Habbie's, and see what they are about.“ In the mean time, Habbie a Janet are fuddlin' awa in fine style, and lauchin heartily at the way they had raised the was when Janet cries, Gude preserve us, Habbie
