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6 then he spoke to it o'er again, and it tell'd him what to say.

It happened on a day, that two of their wives found a horse-shoe near the town, brought it hame, and sent for Wise Willy to see what it was. Willy comes and looks at it, Indeed, co' Willy, its a thing and holes in it. Then, said they, he would get a name till't. Aha, co' Willy, but whair did you find it? Aneath my Lord's ain house, Willy. Adeed, said Willy, it's the auld moon, I ken by the holes in't for nailing it to the lift; but I wonder it she fell in Fife, for the last time I saw her she was hinging on her back aboon Embruch: a hech, co' Willy, we'll hae her set up on the highest house in the town, and we'll hae moon-light o' our ain a' the

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days o' the year. The whole town ran to see the moon: Hout tout, cried Wittie Eppie, ye're a' fools together, it is but ane o' the things it my Lord's mare wears upo' her lufe.

At another time, one of the wives found a hare with its legs broken, lying among her kail in the yard; she, not knowing what it was, called outher neighbours to see it, some said it was some gentleman's cat, or my Lady's lap-dog, or a sheep's young kitlen, because it had saft horns: Na, na, cried Wise Willy, it's ane o'the maukens, that gentleman's dogs worrie. What will you do wi't? Haith, co' Maggy, I'll singe the woo' aff't, and mak fish and sauce o't