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he had been a man of sixty! Every one looked at him, thinking he was some old stranger, who knew not the stool of repentance by another seat, so that he passed the first day unknown but to very few; yet, on the second, it came to be so well known, that the whole parish, and many more, came to see him ; which caused such a confusion that he was absolved, and got his children baptized the next day.
But there happened a tullie between the twa mothers, who wopld have both their names to be John. A-weel a-weel, says auld John, their father, to the Minister, a-deed, Stir, ye maun ca’ the tane John, an the tither Jock, an’ that viil please baith these enemies o’ mankind.
Minis. Now John, you must never kiss any other woman but your own wife; live justly, like another honest man., and you’ll come to die well.
Jock. A black end on a me, Stir, an ever I lay a unlawfu’ leg upon hissie again, an they sude lie down to me, while our Maggy lasts; an for dying, there’s nae fear o’that; but I’ll no get fair play, if ye an a’ the aulder fouk in the parish be not dead before me. So I hae done wi’ now. Fareweel Stir.
FINIS.
