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(4) contained in their tickets, viz, lobſters, partans, podles ſpout-fiſh, ſea cats, ſea dogs, flukes, pikes, dike-paddocks, and p- fiſh.

Among theſe people were ſaid to be one Tom and his two ſons, who were fiſhers on the coaſt of Noraway and in a violent ſtorm were blown over, and got aſhore to Bucky-harbour, where they ſettled, and the whole of his children were called the 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 or any other name dwelt amongſt 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 away, 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 ſee my boat, and a' my