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money, which caused me to apply to the goodman for to get lodging; and it being upon a Saturday's night, was hard to be found till very late in the night. 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 sit down behind their backs. The goodwife then took a dish, went round the servants, and collected 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 for my bed; but the bully-fac'd goodman swore he had too much stuff in it, to venture me there. The goodwife said, I should not lie within the house, for I would be o'er near the lasses' bed. Then the lads swore I should not go with them, for I was a forjeskit-like fellow, and (wha kens whether I was honest or not he may fill his wallet wi' our clothes 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. Here, 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 gruzling 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 their old mother came up to argue the matter, running upon me with open mouth; but I gave her such a rout over her long snout, a caused her to roar out murder in her own language, that alarmed the servants where they lay, who came to see what was the matter. I told them, their old sow was going to swallow me up alive, bid them to go and bring her meat, which they did, and the brute became peaceable.