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22 was baniſhed for a ſlave to the May, to carry coals; he would not take with him on account he had bat se eye. After that there was no more dancing at admitting of burgers, but the old uſual way of feate- rumple, and then drink until they were almoſt blind. Upon the Rood day, four young Bueky lassies went away early in the morning with their creels full of fiſh, and about a mile frae the town they ſaw coming down a brae, like a man driving a beast, when they came near, Tardy Tib ſays, 'tis a man driving a bit mauken: Tib ſlang her creel and fiſh away, the other three run another way and got clear; they ſaid it was a horned de'il. Tib told the frightſome ſtory, and many ran to ſee the poor man, or czdger and his aſs, driving the old mauken. The fiſhers look on all maukins to be devils and witches, and if they but ſee a fight of a dead maukin it ſets them a trembling The fiſher laſſeſ look with diſdain on a farmers daugh- ter and a country laſſes, they call them muck-byerſ and ſherney tail jades. The Bucky lads and ladies when they go to gather bait, tell ſtrange ſtories about Ghosts, Witches, Wil-