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But in anither month, faith, I thocht that she wad hae etten me, an' afore the year was oot I wussed she had. Aye, aye, sir, it's waur nor a lottery, mairriage it's a great mystery." "But how is it, then, that you are so anxious to get married again?" asked Ralph, to whom these conversations with the Cuif were a means of lightening his mind of his own cares.
"Without doubt," said Ralph; "but how does matrimony, for either the first or the second time, cure that?" "Weel, sir, ye see, mairriage mak's a man kind o' independent like. Say, for instance, ye hae been a' day at jobs up i' the yaird, an' it's no been what ye micht ca' pleesant crunchin' through green wud an' waur whiles. "I have run over, Saunders?" queried Ralph.
He seems to hae forgotten her, an' maybe it's as weel. She maun mak' a braw mairriage, an' Fordyce is a braw fellow. I wish ye had noticed him.
"I'm saying, mairriage is quick wark, in some pairts here there's an awfu' trouble to get a man." A young Fishwife. "Ay, is there." Omnes. "Haw! haw! haw!" Christie. "Fill your taupsels, lads and lasses, and awa to Veneece." "I'll no gang to sea this day." Christie. "Noo, we are in the hall o' judgment. Here are set the judges, awfu' to behold; there, on his throne, presides the Juke." Flucker.
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