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moonlight o' our ain a' the days the year. The whole town ran to the moon! Hout tout ſaid Witty Eppie, ye're but ’fools thegicher; i but ane o’ the things it my Lord mare shears upon her lufe.

At another time one of the wiv found a hare with its legs broke, ing among her kail in the yard: S not knowing what it was called on to her neighbours to ſee it. Som ſaid it was a gentleman’s cat, or m Lady’s lap dog, or a ſheep's your kitten becauſe it had faſt horns: N na, cried Wiſe Willie, its one o' th maukins it gentlemens dogs worrie What will we do wi't? Staith, o they all, we’ll ſing the woo aff, au mak' fiſh and ſauce o’t to my Tammie's parrich. Na, na, ſaid Witt Eppie, better gie’t to my Lord, an he’ll ſtap an iron ſtick through th guts o't, and gar’t rin round afore th fire till it be roaſted.