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"We hae been friends for four generations, and we hter now There are wise folk that say the Dutch and the Lowland

Scotch are of the saude stock it is,--the wo fair as lilies and thrifty as bees, and thewise and weel-spoken o' For-bye, baith o'

us--Scotch and Dutch--are strict Protestors The Lady o' Rome never

threw dust in our een, and neither o' us would put our noses to the

ground for either powers spiritual or powers temporal When I think o'

our John Knox"-"First came Eras and housekeeping I came to

speak, and we'll hae it oot The land between this place and my place,

on the river-side, is your land, Joris Give it to Katherine, and I will

build the young things a house; and the furnishing and plenishing we'll

share between us"

"There isthan house and land, Elder"

"Vera true, ood

practice now, and is like to have better They'll be comfortable and

respectable,after the daily

bread"