Dougal Graham

“ Indeed shall ye Johnny, thou's no want twa kisses, ane on every side of the mouth, man.
Jock. Ha, ha, Maggy, I'll hae a merry night of kissing you shortly.
Mag. Ay, but Johnny, you maun stay till that night comes; it's best to keep the feast till the feast day.
Jock. Dinna be angry, Maggy, my wife to be; but I have heard my mither say in her daffin', that fouk sud aye try gin the house will haud their plenishing.
Mag. Ay Johnny, a wife is aye thing and a house is anither, a man that's amind to marry a woman, he'll aye be fond of her. ”

“ Oh, Maggy, tak me an I'll tell you what I hae: First, my father left me when he died, fifty merks, twa sacks, twa pair of sunks; the hens and the gaun gear was to be divided between me and my mither, and if she died first, a' her gear was to come in among mine, and if I died before her, a' my gear was to come back to her again, and her to marry anither man if she could get him But since 'tis sae, she is to gie me Brucky and the black mare, the half o' the cogs, three spoons, and four pair o' blankets and a cannas ”

“ I had better married a tinkler, or followed the sodgers, as mony, an honest man's dochter has done, and lived a better life than I do.
Up gets Jockey and rins over the rigs for John Rodger's wife, auld Katty the howdy; but or he wan back, she parted wi' Patrick through perfect spite, and then lay twa-fauld o'er a stool in a swoon.
Jock, A-weel, a-weel, sirs, though my first born is e'en dead without seeing the light of the warld, ye's a' get bread and cheese to the blythe meat, the thing we should a waured on the bauket will sair the burial, and that will aye be some advantage ”

“ Na, na, he's a braw young man, and I'll tell you, 'tis Johnny Bell; and his mither sent him to the market just to court me ance errand.
Mith. Deed Maggy, ye'll no be ill yoked wi' him, he's a gay well gaun fellow, right spruce, maist like an ill-faured gentleman. Hey, gudeman, do you hear that our Maggy is gaun to be married an the muck were ance out.
Fath. Na, na, I'll no allow that until the peats are cuisten an hurled.
Mag. O father! 'tis dangerous to delay the like of that, I like him and he likes me; 'tis best to strike the iron when tis het. ”

“ Jockey not being used to lie wi' a woman, except heads and thraws wi' his mither, gets his twa hands about the brides neck, and his houghs out o'er her hurdies, saying I ne'er kist wife nor lass naked before, and for fainness I'll bite you, &c.,
Naething mair remarkable happened till about half a year and four ouks thereafter, when in comes Marion Mushes, rinning barefitted and barelegged, wi' blear't cheeks and watery nose, cursing and banning, greeting and flyting. ”

“ With that he gets an auld flail and and rives awa the supple, then drives them a' to the back of the door, but nane wan out; then wi' chirting and clapping of hands down comes the clay hallen, and the henbawk wi' Rab Reid the fiddler, who had crept up, beside the hens, for the preservation of his fiddle. ”