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 Willie comes and looks at it. Indeed quo' Willie, it's a thing and holes in I kent, quo' they, he wad get a nan till't. A’ho! quo' Willie, whar did ye find it? Aneath my Lord's ain horse Willie. Adeed, said Willie, it's the auld moen, I ken by the holes in't fa nailing it to the lift; but I winder she fell in life, for the last time it saw her she was hinging on her bad aboon Edinburgh. A-hech, quo' Willie we'll set her upon the highest house the town, and we'll hae moonlight our ain a' the days o' the year. The whole town ran to see the moon! Hon tout, said Witty Eppie, ye’re a fool thegither; it's but ane o'thae things my Lord's mare.wears upon her lufe.

At another time, one of the wives found a hare, with its legs broken, lying among her kail in the yard. She not knowing what it was, called her neighbours to come and see it: some said i' was a gentleman's cat, or my lady: lap-dog, or a sheep's young kittlen, because it had saft horns: Na, na, cried