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little horſe or cow the poor low to home roar- ing all blood and wanting the roſe, which cauſed Muir-edge to warn them in before my lord; ſo the wives that had their kail eaten appeared first in the court, complaining againſt Muiredge; indeed my lord, Muiredge is no a good man when he's ſic an ill neighbour, he keeps black hares and white hares, little wee brown backed hares wi' white arſen and looſe wagging horns, de muckle ones loups o'er the dike and eats 'de kail, and the little ones wi' de wagging horns creeps in our water guſh halus an' does de like, when we cry piſue they tan awa' hame to Muir-edge, but I'll gor nay colly haud-em by desit, und I'll houd 'em by de horn, and put of de hair aff 'em, and ſend him hame wanting de ſikn as he did wi' ſowen Tammy's wee Sandy for codding o' his pense, he took de poor laddie's coat, a ſhe did he een. A well then, ſaid my lord, what do you ſay, but call in wiſe Willy. In he comes: a well, my lord, I ſhall ſuppoſe an ye were a ſow and me fittine d -, and you to bite my arſe, ſudna I tale amends you for that? Od my lord, ye wadna hae ſic a bit out o your arſe for twenty merks, ye maun juſt gar Muir-edge gi'e ten merks to bay a plaiſter to heal the poor bit wean a arſe again. Well ſaid, Willy, ſaid my lord, but who puts on the ſow's noſe again? A fize my lord, ſaid Willy, ſhe s honeſter like anting it, and ſhe'll bite nae muir a wit, und gin ye had hare a noſe us long as the low had yet been obliged to ony body it was cut a piece offt (illegible text) A gentleman coming pall near their town, aſked one of their wives where their college ſtood ſaid give me a ſhilling and let you ſee both sides o he gives ler o filling thinking to loe ſome curie fight, now there's one file of your filling and here is the other, and 'tia mine row.
