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It happened on a dark winter morning, that two of their wives were oing to Dysart to ſell their fiſh; and n the road ſide there happened to be ome tinkler's aſs tathered. The poor ſs ſeeing the two wives coming with beir creels, thought it was the tinkers coming to fit or relieve him fell crying; the two wives threw their iſh away, and ran home like med perſons, crying they had ſeen the deil y the very horned deil, and that he poke to them, but they did na ken what he ſaid, for it was maur than a Highlandman's; the whole town was n an uproar; ſome would go with picks and ſpades and hagg him to pieces; others wad go and catch him n a ſtrong net, and then they could either hang or drown him. Na, na, co' wife' Willie, we mauna caſt out wi him at the firſt, as he's gotten the twa burdens o' fiſh, he'll een gang his wa' and no faſh us nae mair; he s o'er ſouple to be catch'd in a net; your pith will neither hang him