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12 and dead wives coming back again to visit their families long after being dead; So this Buchaven was once noted for droll exploits ; but it is now become more known, and a place now produces the hardiest sailors of any town on the Scots coast. Yet many of the old people in it still retain the old tincture of their ancient and uncultivate speech, such as Be go laddie; they are also of a fiery nature, for if you ask any of their wives, where their College stands, they‘ll tell you, if your nose was in their a—e, your mouth would be at the door of it.

Now, it happened when Wise Willie turned old, he fook a great swelling in his wame, and casting up his kail, collops and cauld fish, that nothing could stand on his stomach ; and a stout stomach he had, for crabs heads, and scate-broo, or brose in a bridal morning; yet it fail'd him, and he i fell sick. None could cure him, nor tell whatail'd him tll amountebank stage doctor me to Kircaldy, that could judge by people's piss the trouble of their person. Wise Willie hearing of the fame pissed into the bottle, and sent it away with his daughter. The bottle being uncorked, his daughter