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Let us now return to the crofter's house. It is night, and the old man has returned from the handline fishing. His böddie is well stocked with fish, He sits by the round fire, with a baet o' gloy or a kirvie o' floss, winding it may be simmonds or gurdastöries for his maeshies and rivakessies. In the corner in past the fire, (which was on the middle of the floor), on the lit-kettle, sits an old grandmother or a “quarter wife” rocking the cradle, or