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6 controversies, and explained their wonders; for the house was like a little kirk, had four windows and gavle door, the wives

got leave to flyte their fill, but fighting' was prohibited, as Eppie said, up hands was fair play. The fines was a pint o’ ale, and Eppie sold it at a plack the pint. They had neither minister nor magistrate, nor yet a burlie bailie, to brag them wi' his tolbooth. The Lord o’ the manor decided all disputable points, and Wise Willie and Witty Eppie were the rulers of the town Now Eppie had a daughter, she ca’d Lingle-tail’d Nancy, because of her