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 6 side of the house, (no more being in but herself) and took up a big stone, and runs along the rough wait with all his strength, which roared like thunder in the inside of the house, and frighted the wife so, that ſhe thought the house was tumbling down about her lugs, and she ran out and sat down at a distance, looking every minute when the house would fall down, till her husband came home and 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 hang on the outside, so with his garter he tied the dog’s fore foot to the rope, and left him hanging; the dog strug- gling to get free set the bell a-ringing.