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Then Thom Reed went away fra me in through the yard of Monkcastell, and I thought that he gait in at ane narrower hole of the dyke nor anie erdlie man culd have gone throw, and swa I was something fleit." This was the first time that Thom appeared to her. On the third occasion he asked her "if she would not trow in him." She said "she would trow in ony bodye did her gude."
Being asked how and where she met Thom Reed, she said, "As she was gangand betwixt her own house and the yard of Monkcastell, dryvand her ky to the pasture, and makand heavy sair dule with herself, gretand very fast for her cow that was dead, her husband and child that wer lyand sick in the land ill, and she new risen out of gissane, the aforesaid Thom met her by the way, healsit her, and said, 'Gude day, Bessie, and she said, 'God speed you, guidman. 'Sancta Marie, said he, 'Bessie, why makes thow sa great dule and sair greting for ony wardlie thing? She answered 'Alas! have I not great cause to make great dule, for our gear is trakit, and my husband is on the point of deid, and one babie of my own will not live, and myself at ane weak point; have I not gude cause then to have ane sair hart? But Thom said, 'Bessie, thou hast crabit God, and askit some thing you suld not have done; and tharefore I counsell thee to mend to Him, for I tell thee thy barne sall die and the seik cow, or you come hame; and thy twa sheep shall die too; but thy husband shall mend, and shall be as hale and fair as ever he was. And then I was something blyther, for he tauld me that my guidman would mend.
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