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It happened on a day, that two of their wives, near the town, found a horſe-ſhoe, and thought it home, and ſent for Willie to ſee what it was: Willie comes and looks at it; Indeed, en' Willie, it's a thing and holes in't! I kent, co' they, he was get a name till't. A ho! co' Willie, whar did ye find it? Aneath my Lord's ain houſe, Willie. Adeed, ſaid Willie, it's the auld moon, I ken by the holes in't, for nailing it to the lift; but I winder it ſhe fell in Fife, for the laſt time it. I ſaw her, ſhe was hinging on her back aboon Edinburgh. A-hech, co' Willie, we'll ſet her upon the higheſt houſe in the town, and we'll hae moon-light o' our ain a' the days o the year. The whole town ran to ſee the moon! Hout-tout, ſaid Witty Eppie, ye're but a' fools thegither; it's but ane o' the things it my Lord's mare wears upo her lufe.

2. As 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 to her neighbours to ſee it. Some ſaid it was a Gentleman's cat, or my Lady's lap-dog, or a ſheep's young kitten, becauſe it had faſt horns. Na, na, cried Wiſe Willie, it's ane o'the maukins it gentlemen's dogs worries— What will we do wi't? Staith, co' they all, we'll ſing the woo' aff, and make fiſh and ſauce a't to my Tammie's paarich. Na, na, ſaid Witty Eppie, better gie't to my Lord, an' he'll ſtap an iron ſtick through the guts a't, an' gar's 'tin