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4 tained in their tickets, via. lobſters, partans, podles- ne dogs, flukes, pikes, dikepad.

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 on ſhore 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 anotber. So in courſe of time they grew up and multiplied, that they ſoon became a little town by themſelves: few or any other name dwelt amongſt them, and were all called the Thomſons; they kept but little communication with the country people, for a former in thoſe days thought his daughtercast away if the married one of the fiſhers in Bucky- harbour, and witty Eppie the ale-wife wad a ſworn ango, laddig, I had rather ſee my best and a my fit fonu da det againſt the Bale or I Saw ony an of