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"Then," said Sandy, after a silence, "ye micht gie me back ma match."

"They're no verra bug, but I'm thunkin' one of them micht do," and Sandy moves on again.

Then up bespak the bride's mither,— I wat an angry woman was she,— "You micht hae excepted our bonnie bride,155 Tho' she'd been three times as fair as she."

"Peggy Coutts is a very bonnie bride, And Drum is a wealthy laddie,50 But he micht hae chosen a hier match, Than onie shepherd's lassie."

It micht ha' been his ain epitaph:— "As father Adam firrst was fooled— A case that's still too common— Here lies a man that wumman ruled, The deevil ruled the wumman!"