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 being Edinburgh bred, and brought up wi' her Louden aunty, was learned to read and sew, make coarse claiths and calicoe mancoes; there was nae scholar in the town but hersel, she read the bible, and the book of kirk sangs that was newly come in fashion. Willie and Eppie tell'd them aye what he meant, and said a' the letters in it was litted by my Lord, for they saw him hae a feather that he dipt in black water, and made crooked scores, just like the same; and then he spake o'er again, and it tell'd him what to say.

It 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, lie 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, it's the auld moon, I ken by the holes in't, for nailing it to the left; but I winder if she fell in Fyfe, for the last time I saw her, she was hinging on her back aboon Edinburgh. A-hech, co' Willie, we'll set her upon