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 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 out her neighbours to see it: some said it was some gentleman's cat, or my lady's lap- dog, or a sheep's young kitten, because it had saft horns. Na, na, cried Wise Willy, it's ane

o' the maukens, that gentlemen's dogs worries. What will ye do wi't Haith, co' Maggy, I'll singe the woo aff’t, and make fish and sauce o't to my Tammy's parrich. No, no, said Witty Eppie, better gie't to my Lord, and he'll stap his iron stick thro' the guts o't, and gar't rin round afore the fire till be roasted. Na, na, said Wise Willy, we'll no do that indeed, for my Lord wad mak us a' dogs, and gar us rin" thro the kintry seeking maukins till him. It happened on a dark winter morning, that two of their wives were going to Dysart to sell their fish, and near the road-side there was a Tinkler's ass tendered; the poor ass seeing the wives coming fell a-crying, and the wives being frightened, threw their fish away, and ran home, crying they had seen the de'il, which set the whole town in an uproar! and were going with spades and picks, to bag him a' in pieces, or catch him in a net, and then burn him.——Na, na, co' Wise Willy, the kintry he comes frae