OF

MR. AND MRS. CURSTY SANDBOYS.

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CHAPTER I.

“Come, Nichol, and gi’e us thy cracks,

I seed te gang down to the smiddy,

I’ve fodder’d the naigs and the nowt,

And wanted to see thee—’at did e.

Ay, Andrew, lad! draw in a stuil,

And gie us a shek o’ thy daddle;