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 Their freedoms were to take all kinds of fish contained in their Ticket, viz., lobsters, partons, podles, spout-fish, sea-cats, sea-dogs,flukes, pikes, dike-paddocks, and p——k fish. 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 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 among them. 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 three sons dadet against the

Bass, or I saw ony ane o' them married on a muck-a-byre's daughter, a wheen useless taupies, that can do naething but rive at a tow-rock, and cut corn; they can neither bait a