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 Again, these people are said to have descended from one Tom and his two sons, who were fishers on the coast of Norway, who, in a violent storm, were blown over, and got a shore at Buck-harbour, where they settled ; and the whole of his children were called Tom sons, and soon became a little town by themselves, as few of any other name dwelt among them, This is a traditional story handed down from one generation to another—They kept but little communication with country people about them, for a farmer, in those days, thought his daughter cast away, if she married one of the other hand, witty Eppie the ale-wife wad a sworn Bugo laddie, I wad rather see my boat an a‘ my three sons daded against the Bass or I saw ony ane o‘ them married to a muck-a-byre's daughter; a wheen useless tappies, it can do naething but rive at a towrock and cut corn, they can neither bait a hook nor redd a line, houk sand-eels, nor gather pirriwinkles.

Now wise Willie and wittie Eppie the ale wife lived there about a hundred years ago. Eppie's chamber was their college and Court-House where they decided