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4 Their freedoms were to take all kinds of fiſh contained in their tickets, viz, lobſters, partans, podles, ſpout-fiſh, ſea-cats, ſea-dogs, flukes, pikes, dike-padocks, and p fiſh.

Among thoſe people were ſaid to be one Tom and his two ſons, who were fiſhers on the coaſt of Norway, and in a violent form were blown over, and got aſhore at Bucky-harbour, where they ſettled, and the whole of his children were called Thomſons, this is a hiſtorical ſaying, handed down from one generation to another. So in courſe of time they grew up and multiplied, that they ſoon became a little town by themſelves; few of any other name dwelt among them, and were all called the Thomſons; they kept but little communication with the country people, for a farmer in thoſe days, thought his daughter caſt awa, if ſhe married one of the fiſhers in Bucky-harbour, and Witty Eppie the ale-wife, wad a ſworn be-go' laddie, I wad rather fee my boat and a' my three ſons

dadet againſt the Baſs, or I ſaw ony ane o' them married, on a muck-a-byre's daughter, a wheen uſeles taupies, that can do naething but rive at a