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 THE

H I S T O R Y

OF

WISE WILLIE, AXD WITTY EPPIE

The Ale-Wife.

P A R T L

AMONGST several ancient old records this Bucky is not mentioned. There was a sect called Buccaneers, who were pi- rates, (that is to say sea robbers) After strict search being made for these robbers, they were dispersed.-—What of                         them escaped in the southern climate are said to shelter at or near Berwick- on-Tweed. Having differed among them- selves, a smart battle ensued, after wards they divided; and it is said, the party who gained this Bucky battle, fearing the English law would take place, they set northward, and took up their resi- dence at Bucky-haven, so called, not on- ]y on account of the great quantities of                        buckies that are found in and about the place, but on account of the battle they had had with their neighbours at Berwick when they divided, which they called bucking one another, but now named boxing or fighting. Another party of                        those Buckets settled in a fishing town