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wishing them joy, then girls and a boy.— Jockey seeing so many wishing well to his health, coupt up what he gat for to augment his health and gar him live long, which afterwards coupt him up, and proved detrimental to the same.
So home they came to the dinner, where his mither presented to them a piping hot haggies, made of the criesh of the black b ul horn'd Ewe, boil'd in the meikle pot, mixt with bear-meal, onions, spice, and mint. This haggies being supt warm, the foaming swats and spice in the liquor set John's belly a-bizzing like a working fat ; and he playing het'fit to the fidler was suddenly seized with a bocking and rebounding, which gave his dinner such a backward ca', that he lost a' but the girt bits, which he scythed thro' his teeth. His mither cried to spence him, and bed him with the brice, his breeks being fil'd, they washed both his hops, and laid him in his bed: Pale and ghostly was his face, and clos'd were baith his een. Ah! cries his mither, a dismal day indeed, his bridal and his burial may be on ae day. Some (illegible text) water in his face, and jag'd him wi' a needle, till he began to rouse himself up, and lisp out some broken words: Mither, mither, cries Jockey, whar am I now? Whar are you now, my bairn, says his mither, ye're bedet, an I'll bring the bride to you. Bedet, says Jockey,
