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 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's ass teeth red. 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 a' awa', and ran hame like mad persons, crying they had seen the deil, ay, the very horned

deil, and that he spoke to them but they didna ken what he said, for it was waur