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Fife but I wad a laid him on the braid o' his baack, an' a' his gear upmost; I was a chicken to chatter wi' indeed laddie, I had a pair o' cheeks like a chapman's backside, and a flank like an ox, fae had I e'en.
Sawny. Nae doubt, co' Sawny, but ye had a pair o'beefy buttocks, for your very cheeks hing like leather bags to this very day.———But I'll tell you what am now agaun to tell you: Do you think that your Kate wad tak me, an' I wad come to court her?
Mat. Tak you, laddie, tak you! A faith she'll tak you; for she would a tane a poor button thing o' a ha'f blind taylor warna me; a poor bleird scabbit-like creature it was; I seen the day I wou'd a carried it in my pouch:——wode Ise warrant her jump at you like a fish at a flie:——wode I say, Tak you! an' she winna tak you, Ise tak you mysel'—— But she and I cust out the day about her cockups and black caps, gard me say sae meikle o' her; but she's my sonsy dawty for a' that: Well a wat she's a well-natur'd lassie, an' she'll turn an ill-natur'd wife, I canna tell.
Sawny. A-well then, I'll venture on her (illegible text)s she is, for my mither's pleas'd and we're pleas'd, an' am pleas'd, an' in she be pleas'd, wode am sure to get her an' the
