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23 cries to them, to the right about. To which they answered 0 bless you, my Lord, what is dat man saying? Says my Lord, he bids you turn your face to Maggy's hill, and your a to the sea, which they did in all haste. An what what will we do now? said Willie. No more, said my Lord, but go all home, Willie. O my dear, My blessing come on your bonny face, my Lord, I wish you may never die, nor never grow. sick, nor nae body fell you, ye are the best man in a' the world, for we thought a' to be dead men or sodgers. ye're wiser than a' the witches on the coast o' Fife or in a' the world.

There was a custom in Bucky Harbour when they got a hearty drink, that they went down to dance among the boats, and two or three of the oldest went into a boat to see the rest dance. And when they admitted a burgher there was always a dance. One day they ad- mitted gly'd Rob. who was a warlock and made them all stop their dancing; for which he was carried before Wise Willie, to answer for this, his crime ; for which he was banished to the isle of May, at the mouth of the Frith of Forth, to Carry coals to the Light House,

The Bucky lads and lasses, when they go to gather bait, tell strange stories about ghosts and witches, Willie wi' the wisp, and Kelpy faires, maukins, and bogles of all sorts. They think the ghosts go all night like auld horses.