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7 feckss growth; her waist was like a twitter, id nae curpen for a cieel, being Edinburgh bred, and brought up wi' her Louen aunty, was learned to read and sew, lade coarse claith, and calicoe mancoes; there was nae scholar in the town but her, she read the bible, and the book of kirk sangs that was newly come in fashion. Willie and Eppie tell’d them ay what he meant, and said a the letters in was litted by my Lord, for they saw him ae a feather that he dipped in black waer, and made crooked scores, just like the ame; and then he spake o'er again, and t tell’d him what to say.

In happened on a day that two of their wives near the town, found a horse shoe, and brought it home and sent for Willie to see what it was ; Willie comes and looks at it ; Indeed, co' Willie, its a thing and holes in’t. I kent, co’ they, he wad get a name till’t. A' ho’ ? co’ Willie, whar did ye find it? Aneath my Lord’s ain house, Willie. Adeed, said Willie, its the auld moon, I ken by the holes in’t, or nailing it to the lift: but I winder it she fell in Fyfe, for the last time it I saw her she was hinging on her back abn