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as drouthy Tom's stock and mine was eonjunct we gave the Quack again his sh---ng stuff and his stinking mugs, and he gave us our goods and pickles of hair which we equally divided betwixt us, the whole of it only came to eighteen shillings and sixpence prime cost, and so we parted, I went for East Lothian, and Tom for the West; but my sorting of goods being unsuitable for the country, I got little or no money next day; and it being Saturday, I prevailed to get staying in a great farmer's house, about two miles from Haddington; they were all at supper when I came in; I was ordered to go round the servants and collect a soup out of every cog, which was sufficient to have served three men; the goodwife ordered me to be laid in the barn all night, but the bully-faced goodman swore he had too much stuff in it to venture me there; the goodwife said, I should not lie in the house, for I would be o'er near the lasses bed; then the lads swore I would not go with them, for I was a forjesket like fellow, and wha kens whether I was honest or not, he may fill his wallet wi' our claes and gang his wa' or day light. At last I was conducted out to the swine's stye, to sleep with an old sow and seven pigs, and there I lay for two nights. Now I began to reflect on the sour fruits of drinking, and own all the misery just that was come upon me. In the night the young pigs came grunting about me very kindly, thinking I was some friend of their mother's come to visit them; they gave me but little rest, always coming kissing me with their cold noses, which caused me to beat them off with my staff which made them to make a terrible noise, so that the old mother came up to argue the matter, running up on me with open mouth, but I gave her such a
