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each other over a Scate's rumple. Their oath was. "I wiſh that de deil may tak me, an I binna an honeſt man to you, an ye birra de like to me." As article of good neighbourhood they had, whoever was firſt up in a good morning was to raiſe all the reſt to go to ſea; but if a very bad morning piſs and go to bed again till break of day, then raiſe wiſe Willie, who could judge of the weather by the blawing of the wind.- Their freedoms were, to take all ſorts of fiſt contained in their tickets, viz. Lobſters, patrons; podles, ſpout-fiſh, ſea-cats, ſea dogs, flocks, pikes, dick-puddocks, and p-fiſh.

Again, theſe people are ſaid to have decended from one Tom and his two ſons, who were fiſhers on the coaſt of Norway, who, in a voilent ſtorm were blown over, and got aſhore at Buck harbour where they ſetteled; & the whole of his children were called Thom-ſons, and ſoon became a little