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 ( 21 ) nor yet grow fick, nor nae body kill you; ye're the beft Lord I ken on earth, for we thought a‘ to be made dead men and fodgers, you‘re wifer than a the witchees in Fife. There was in Bucky-harbour, a method when they got a hearty drink, that they went down to dance a- mong the boats, one, two, or three of the oldeft went into a boat to fee the reft dance; when e‘er they ad- mi tted a burgher there was always a dance. One day they admitted a glied Rob Thomfon from the ifland of May, an' after he was admitted they got account from Wife Willy that glied Rob was a witch which, made them all ftop their dancing, and Rob was cried on to make anfwer to this weighty matter. Gly‘d Rob cried none of you fhall ftir a fit for two hours, I‘fe warrand you : fo Rob fpang‘d and jump'd over toe

boat feveral times and put them in great terror, fome cried, O ‘tis i‘ the air, and then they cried they faw him i‘ the air hinging, fo that Rob was obliged to go back to the May, and carry coals to the light houfe. It was reported that gly’d Rob was born in Bucky and that his father was Willy Thomfon‘s fon, who