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6 persuaded her to go in, to whom she told the above story. 'Hout tout, daft tapie,’ said he, 'the house will stand these hundred years.’ Leper knowing they were both in, comes and plays the same trick over again, which also frightened the goodman so much, that he cried out — ‘Run, Maggy, run, for my heart plays pitty-patty.’ And they would not lodge in the house any more, till the masons convinced them of its sufficiency.

There was another neighbour who had a snarling cur dog, which bit Leper’s leg; Leper resolved to be revenged on the dog; and so one night he catches the dog, and carries him to the kirk, where the rope of the bell hung on the outside; so with his garter he tied the dog’s sore foot to the rope, and left him hanging; the dog struggling to get free, set the bell a-ringing, which alarmed the whole village. Every one cried out ‘ Wonderful sirs! wonderful sirs! the devil is ringing the bell.’ When they saw the black colley