Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches

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came to feven and fixpence ; or if all
of them did as their wives bid them,
then they were to pay all alike. So
on this agreement they all came away,
firft to the hatter’s houfe, and in he
goes like a mad man, dancing and
jumping round the floor, his wife was
taking off the pot and fetting it on the
floor, he ftill dancing about, ding o-
ver the pot with thy madnefs j fo he
gives it a kick and over it went, and
that faved him, as he had done what
his wife bade him do. Then away
they go to the tailor’s houfe, in he goes
dancing likewife, but his wife fell a
fcolding him : O, fays he, give me a
kifs? kifs my arfe you drunken rogusf
faid flie, then ter her flies and lays her
on the bed up, with her petticoats and
kiffes her arfe before them all, and
that faved him. Then away they went
to the (hoe-maker’s, and in he goes
very merry, and dancing about as he
faw the other two do, laying come my
dear heart, and give me a kifs l Go
hang yourfelf you drunken dog, faid
Ihe, fo he mull either go and hang
himfeif diredVly, or pay the reckoning.