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Willie, its the father o' the maukins, I ken by its lang lugs.

Now some say this history is too satirical; but it is according to the knowledge of those times, not to say one place by another. The old wives will tell you yet of many such stories of the devil appearing to their grandfathers and grandmothers, and a lead wives coming back again to visit their families, long after being dead; So this Buckhaven was once noted for droll exploits; but it is now become more known, and a place now produces the hardiest sailors of any town on the Scots coast. Yet many of the old people in it, still retain the old tincture of their ancient and uncultivated speech, such as Be-go laddie; they are also of a fiery, nature, for if you ask any of their wives, Where their College stands, they ll tell you, if your nose was in their a-,your mouth would be at the door of it.