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9 guts o‘t, and gart rin till it be roasted. It happened on a dark winter morning, that two of their wives were going to Dysart to sell their fish; and on the road side

there happened to be some tinker'sasstethered. The poor ass seeing the two wives coming with the creels, thought it was the tinkers coming to flit or relieve him, fell a crying, the two wives threw their fish aawa‘, and ran hame like mad persons, crying they had seen the deil, ay, the very horned deil, and that he spoke to them