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 Eppie tell'd' ay what it meant, and said a' the letters in it was litted by my Lord, for they saw him hae a feather, that he dipped in black water, and made crooked scores just like the same, and then he spake 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; they brought it hame, and sent for Wise Willie to see what it was. Willy comes and looks at it, Indeed, co' Willy, it's a thing and holes in't. Then, said they, we kend he would get a name till't. Aha, co' Willy, but whar did ye find it? Anaith 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 if she fell in Fife, for the last time I saw lier 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, an' we'll hae moon light o' our ain a' the days of

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