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23 cries to them, to the right about. To which they answered O bless you, my Lord, what is dat man saying: Says my Lord, he bids you turn you 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, Wilie. 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 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 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 the admitted a burgher there was always a dance. One day they admitted 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 lassies, when they go to gather bait, tell strange stories about ghosts und witches. Willie wi' the Wisp, and Kelpy fairies, maukins, and bogles of all sorts. They think the ghosts yo all night like horses.