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rin round a fore the fire till it be roaſted. Na, na, ſaid Wiſe Willie, we'll no do that indeed; for my Lord wad mak us a' dogs, an' gir us rid through the country ſeekin maukins for him

3. IT happened in a dark winter morning, that two of their wives were going in Dyſart to ſell their fiſh; and on the road ſide there happened to be ſome tinker's tathered.- The poor aſs ſeeing the two wives coming with their creels, thought it was the tinkers coming to flit or relieve him, fell a crying; the two wives threw their fiſh away, and run home like mad perſons, crying they had ſean the de'il, ay the very horned de'il, and that he ſpoke to them. but they did na ken what he ſaid, for it was words than a highlandman's; the whole town was in an uproar; ſome would go with picks and ſpades, and hagg him in pieces; others wad go and catch him in a ſtrong net, and then they could either hang or drown them. Na, na, co' Wiſe Willie, we mauna caſt out wi' him at the firſt, as he's gotten the twa burdens o' fiſh, he'll e'en gang his wa' an' no faſh us nae mair; he is o'er ſouple to be catch'd in a net; a' your pith will neither hang him nor drown him, and the kintry he comes frae, is a' het coals, ha'd never burn: We'll gae to him in a civil manner, and ſee what he wants. Get out Witty Eppie, the ale wife, and Lingle rail'd Nancy, wi' the Bible and Pſalm-Book. So aff they came in a crowd, either to kill the de'il, or catch him alive