“ I think ye might a want a' your days when ye fasted sae lang; (illegible text) ha'e plenty o' baith milk and meal, sn (illegible text) an' tobacco, but ye smell at the crack (illegible text) the whip. ”

“ Sawny. Hech hey! co' Sawny, but courting be a curst wark, an' costly; an' marriage be as mortifying and murdering, a' body may be married for me.
Mith. Wa Sawny man, what's come o'er thee now? Thou's gotten skaith, some auld wife has witcht thee, or the very deel has dung thee o'er in some dirty midden! My bairn's elf-shot!——Whar has thou been, or what has thou seen? Thy een reels like a wild cat and the sweat is hailing o'er th (illegible text) nose; thou's witcht, thou's witcht! O ma (illegible text) what will I do?
Sawny. Bock, bock co'Sawny ”

“ Mither. Wa, Sawny, man, thou's a fool, an' that's a fau't: an' every ane were as (illegible text) asy about women as thou is, the warld wad be a wilderness in a wee time; there wad be nae body to inhabit the earth but brute beasts, cats and dogs wad be worrying ither, and every thing gae to confusion: Gae to the courting ye dog it ye are, and either do something or naething at a'.
END OF THE FIRST PART. ”

“ Sawny. Na, na, mither, I'll tak a cheaper gate nor ony o'them; I'll gar ha'f-a-crown an' ha'f-a-mutchkin, or a rake o' coals do it a' (illegible text) then a body has uae mair do but piss an' then go to bed syne.
Mith. Na, na, my man Sawny. I ha'e mony, mony a time heard thy honest father say that never a ane wad do well that capstrided the kirk, or cuckol'd the minister.
Sawny. A tell na me, mither, o' the ministers; they're ay for their ain hands, well as other fouks, an' if a poor beggar (illegible text) y had a bit wean to chrisen, a deil a doit (illegible text) y'll serke him o't. ”

“ For his mither tell'd him the women look'd ay to the men's legs (illegible text) they marry'd them, and the well legged louns gade best aff.
So Sawny came swaggering through the shell-wives, but she was nae there; but coming down the town, beneath the guard meets auld. Be-go in (illegible text) in the (illegible text) , w (illegible text) cried out, Hey laddie, my d (illegible text) v, how's you mither honest Mary? ”

“ Willie and Charlie is to th (illegible text) an hour syne, an'ha'f-gate hame ag (illegible text) Wilt though rife an' gi' the beasts a bit; you minds na' them, I wat man.
Grump, grump, quo' Sawny, they got their supper an hour after I got mine, shot (illegible text) dead come on them, an' they get a bit (illegible text) e me till they work for't.
Sawny. But O mither, I been dreaming that I was married, an' i' the bed wi' the (illegible text) de; I wonder gin it be true: Od! I (illegible text) ver got sic fun! What wilt be, think ye? How auld am I, mither? Do ye think I'm for marrying yet? ”

“ But Sawny came aff wi' his coals whistling, and whipping up the poor beast e'e (illegible text) as outrageous as ony ram at riding time. Well might ony body seen there was a ston (illegible text) in Sawny's nose, light were it like; fo (illegible text) no sooner had he sell'd his coals, than he left his horse to come hame wi' a nibou (illegible text) callan, and gade keeking up the Cowgate and thro' the cl ses, seeking auld Bego, b (illegible text) good-mither to be ”

“ Sawny. What the vengeance, mither, ye think that a body is to file the bed every night, an they do't ance?
Mith. Na, na, tha's no what I mean; (illegible text) s happiness that fouk has that's married, sides the wearied lones me life it I hae'e, (illegible text) ing tumbling an' gaunting in a bed my (illegible text) ne. O sirs! but a man in a bed be an (illegible text) efu' body, an' it were but to claw ane's (illegible text) ack; as for a body's for side, they ean saw it themsel'.
Sawny.A' mither, mither, ye ha'e f (illegible text) a string again ”