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 ( 4 ) contained in their ticket, viz. lobsters, partans, podles, spout-fish, sea-cats, sea-dogs, flukes, pikes, dike-pad- docks, and pfish. Among these people were said to be one Tom and his two sons, who were fishers on the coast of Norway, and in a violent storm were blown over, and got 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 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 awa’ if she married one of the fishers in Bucky- harbour, and Witty Eppie the ale wife, had a sworn

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