kirk fouks is ay greedy, ye been wi the minister the day, yed get a good lang grace he might a gien the meat thou filthy dog that tu is, thou hast the bulk of a little whalpie o' my leaven in your guts, it wada been four good bannocks and a scone, and a saird our Sunday's dinner, sae wad it een, but an ye keep a reekeing house an a rocking cradle three eleven years as I hae done less o' that will fair yet baggity beast it tu is, mair that I bore thee now hearye that my dow.
The next exploit was an action at law against the
goodman of Muir edge, a farmer who lived near by, that kept sheep and swine, his sheep came down and broke the yards and ate up their kail; the wild hares, they thought, belonged to the same man, as they ran towards his house when they were hunted; the swine came very often in and about their houses, seeking fish guts or ony thing they could get, so it happend that one of their children, sitting eating itself, one of the swine tumbles it over, and bits a piece out of the child's backside the whole town rose in an uproar, and after Grunkie as they called her, they catched her, and took her be- fore wise Willy: Willy taks an ax and cuts two or three inches of her long nose, now says Willy, I trow I have made the something Christian like, thou had sie a long mouth and nose before, it wad a fright- ed a very de'il to look at ye; but now ye're fac'd like a little horse or cow; the poor sow ran home roaring all blood and wanting the nose which caus- ed Muir-edge to warn them in before my Lord; so
