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 ed the poor ass on all sides, thinking it was the deil; but when Wise Willie saw he had nae cloven feet, he cried out, Scarna lads, this is not the deil, it's

some living beast; it's neither cow nor horse. An' what is't then, Willie? Indeed, co Willie, it's the father of the maukins, I ken by its lang lugs.

Now some say this history is too satirical, but it is according to the knowledge of those times, not to say one one place by another. The old wives will tell you yet of many such stories of