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4 Again theſe people is ſaid to be one, Tom and two ſons who were fiſhers on the coaſt of Norway and in a violent ſtorm were blown over, and got aſhore 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 of 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, wada ſworn

be-go' laddie, I wad rather ſee my boat and a' my three ſons dadet againſt the Baſs, or ſhe ſaw ony ane o' them married on a muck-a-byre's daughter, whin uſeleſs taupies, it can do nothing but rive at tow rock, and cut corn; they can neither bait nor hook.