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(21) nor yet grow ſick, nor nae body kill you; ye‘re the beſt Lord I ken on earth, for we thought a' to be made dead men and fodgers, you're wiſer than a the witches in Fife.

There was in Bucky harbour, a method when they got a hearty drink, that they went down to dance among the boats, one, two, or three of the oldeſt went into a boat to ſee the reſt dance; when e'er they admitted a burgher there was always a dance. One day they admitted a glied Rob Thomſon from the iſland of May, an' after he was admitted they got account from Wſfe Willy that glied Rob was a which which, made them all stop their dancing, and Rob was cried on to make anſwer to this weighty matter. Gly‘d Rob cried none of you ſhall ſtir a ſit for two hours, life warrand you: ſo Rob ſpang‘d and jump'd over the

boat ſeveral times and put them in great terror, ſome cried, O 'is in the air, and then they cried they ſaw him is the air hinging, 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