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

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An honefl Highlandman not long
fince, not much acquainted with law,
fell out with one ot his neighbours,
and to the law they went; he employ¬
ed one advocate, and his oppofite an-
nother, and as they were debating it
in court before the judges, the high¬
landman being there prefent, a friend
on his fide afked him how he thought
it would go, or who would gain the
day, indeed fays the highlandman his
law man fpeaks well, and my lawman
fpeaks well, I think we’ll both wm,
and the judges will lofe, for they fpeak
but a word now and then.
A young woman by the old acci¬
dent having got herfelf with child, was
called to the fefiion for fo doing, and
after one elder another examining her
how (he got it, and where Ihe got it,
and what tempted her to get it; and
no doubt the deel wad get her for the
getting it: and laft of all the minifter
fell a enquiring how (he got it, which
run the poor lafs out of all patience
about the getting, fays the prieft, tell
me plainly where it was gotten ? I tell
you, faid (lie it was gotten in the byre,