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 town by themſelves, as few of any other name dwelt among them. This is a traditional ſtory, handed down from one generation to another.- They kept but little communication with country people about them, for a farmer, in thoſe days, thought his daughter caſt away if ſhe married one of the fiſhers in Bucky-harbour; and, on the other hand, Witty Eppie the ale wife wada ſworn Be go laddie I wad rather ſee my boat and a' my three ſons dadet againſt the Baſs, or I ſaw ony ane o' them married to a muck-a-byre's daughter; a wheen uſeleſs tappice, it can do naething but rive at a tow rock, and cut corn; they can neither bait a hook, nor rade a line, houk ſand eels nnor gather piriwinkles.

No Wiſe Willie and Witty Eppie he ale wife lived there about a hundred years ago. Eppie's chapter was their College and Court-houſe, where they decided controverſies, &