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 used to raise all the rest to go to sea; but if a very bad morning, piss and go again till break of day; then raise Wise Willy, who could judge of the weather by the blawing of the wind——— Their freedoms were, to take all sorts fish contained in their tickets, viz. lobsters, partens, podlies, spout-fish, sea-cats, sea-dogs, fleuks, pikes, dick- buddocks, and p-fish.

Again, these people are said to have descended from one Tom and his two sons, that were fishers on the coast of Torway; who, in a violent storm, were own over, and got ashore at Bucky- harbour, where they settled; and the whole of his children were called Thom-sons, and soon became a little dawn by themselves, as few of any other me dwelt among them. This is a traditional story, handed down from one generation to another. They kept but little communication with the country people about them; for a farmer, in those days, thought his daughter cast away if she married one of the