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 THE

HISTORY

OF

WISE WILLY and WITTY EPPIE.

IN the country of Fife, on the ſea-coaſt, there ſtands a little town, inabited by few but faſhers, called Bucky-harbour, becauſe of tea buckies and ſhells to be found ſo plenty on the rocke about that place. There is little mention made of this town by Hiſtorians, to know its original extraction and antiquities, but in their own Burgee-Ticket, which was partly truth, but more of it by way of lampoon. This Ticket was dated the two and thirtieth day of the month of Julius Cæſar. Their Coat of Arms was two hands gripping