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21 nor yet grow sick, nor naebody kill you; ye're the beſt Lord I ken on earth. for we thought to be made dead men and sogers, your wiſer than a'the witches in Fife. There was in Backy harbour a method when they got a hearty drink, that they went down to dance a. mong the hosts, one, two or three of the oldeſt went into a boat to ſee the reſt dance; whene'er they ad. mitted a burgher there was always a dance. One day they admitted gly'd Rob Thomſon from the iſland of May; after he was admitted, they got account from wiſe Willy that gly'd Rob was a witch, which made them all ſtop their dancing, and Rob was cried on to make anſwer to thin weighty mattar. Gly'd Rab cried, none of yea ſhall ſtir a fit for two hours l'fe warrand you; ſo Rob ſpang'd and jump'd over the boat ſeveral times & put them in great terror, ſome cried. O'tin i' the air, and then they cried they few him if the sir hingine, ſo that Rob was obliged to go back to the May and carry coals to the light houſe. It was reported that gly'd Rob was born in Bucky, and that his father was Willy Thomſon's ſon, who