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6 It happened on a day, that two of their wives near the town found a horse shoe, and brought it home and sent for Wise Willie to see what it was. Willie comes and looks at it; indeed co Willie its a thing and holes in it. I ken'd co' they, he would get a name til't. A ho, co' Willie whare did you find it? Aneath my Lord's ain house Willie. Adeed, said Willie, its the auld mood, I ken by the holes in't for nailing it to the lift; but I wonder if she fell i Fife, for the last time I saw her, she was hanging on her back aboon Edinburgh. A hech, co' Willie, we'd set her upon the highest base in the town, and we l hae moonlight o' our ain a' the days l'he whole town ran to see the moon, hout tout, said Witty Eppie, ye're but a' fools thegither: its but a e o' the things it my Lord's mare wears upon her lufe.

At another time one of their wives found a hare with its legs broken, lying among her kail, in the yard. She not knowing what it was, called out to her neighbours to see it. Some said it was a gentleman's cat, or my lady's lap-dog, or a sheep's young kitten, because it had saft horns. Na, na, cried Wise Willie, its ane o' the maukins that gentlemen's dogs worries What will we do wit. Hech, co they all, we,ll sing the woo, and make fish and sauce o't to my. Tammies parritch. Na. na, said Witty Eppie, better gie'e to mv Lord, and he'll stap an iron stick through the guts o't and gar't