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 little kirk, had four windows and a gavle

door: the wives got leave to flyte their fill, but fighting was prohibited, as Eppie said, up-hands was fair play. Their fines was a pint o' ale, and Eppie sold it at a plack the pint. They had neither minister nor magistrate, nor yet a burly bailie, to brag them wi' his tol-booth. 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 feckless growth; her waist was like a twitter, had nae curpen for a creel,