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23 ies to them, To the right about. To which answer'd, O bless you, my Lord, what is  man sayin'! Says my Lord, he bids you your faces to Maggy's hill, your as  the se; which they did in all haste. An what we do now? said Willie. No more, said Lord but go all home Willie. O my dowl y blessing me on your bonny face, my, I wish you may never die, nor ever grow , nor me body fell you, ye are the best man a' the warld, for we thought a to be dead  or sodgers, ye're wiser than as the witches n the coast of Fife, or in a' the warld.

There was a custom in Bucky harbour, they got a hearty drink, that they went  to dance among the boats, and two or  of the oldest went into a boat to see the st dance. And when they admitted a burgher, was always a dance. One day they admitted gly'd Rob, who was a warlike, and made all to stop their dancing; for which he was  before Wise Willie, to answer for this  crime; for which he was banished to the isle  May, at the mouth of the FrithFirth [sic] of Forth, to  coals to the Light House.

The Bucky lads and lasses, when they go to ather bait, tell strange stories, about ghosts witches, Willie wi' the wisp, and the Kelpy,, maukins, and bogles of all sorts. They the ghosts go all night, like auld horses,