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death and doctor hornbook a true story some books are lies frae end to end, and some great lies were never penn'd: ev'n mihey hae been kenn'd, in holy rapture, a rousing whid at times to vend, and nail't wi' scripture. but this that i am gaun to tell, which lately on a night befell, is just as true's the deil's in hell or dublin city: that e'er he nearer es oursel' 's a muckle pity. the cla yill had made me ty, i was na fou, but just had plenty; i stacher'd whiles, but yet too tent aye to free the ditches; an' hillocks, stanes, an' bushes, kenn'd eye frae ghaists an' witches. the rising moon began to glowre the distant ock hills out-owre: to t her horns, wi' a my pow'r, i set mysel'; but whether she had three or four, i cou'd na tell. i was e round about the hill, an' todlin down on willie's mill, setting my staff wi' a' my skill, to keep me sicker; tho' leeward whiles, against my will, i took a bicker. i there wi' something did father, that pat me in an eerie swither; an' awfu' scythe, out-owre ae shouther, clear-dangling, hang; a three-tae'd leister oher lay, large an' lang. its stature seem'd lang scotch ells twa, the queerest shape that e'er i saw, for fient a wame it had ava; and then its shanks, they were as thin, as sharp an' sma' as cheeks o' branks. “guid-een,” quo' i; “friend! hae ye been mawin, when ither folk are busy sawin!” i seem'd to make a kind o' stan'