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‘Is there ony dogs into this town? maiden, tell me true.’
‘And what wad ye do wi them, my hinny and my dow?’
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‘They’ll rive a’ my mealpocks, and do me meikle wrang.’
‘O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor man?’
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Then she took up the mealpocks and flang them oer the wa:
‘The d—l gae wi the mealpocks, my maidenhead and a’!
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