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town by themselves, as few of any other name dwelt among them. This is a traditional story handed down from one generation to another- They kept but little communication with country people about them, for a farmer in those days thought his daughter cast away if she married bore of the fishers in Buck-harbour; and, on the other hand, Witty Eppie the alewife wad a sworn Be go-laddie I wad rather see any boat and a' my three sons dadet against the Bass, or I saw ony ane o' them married to a muck-a-byre's daughter; a heen useless tappies, it can do naething but rive an a to v rock, and cu corn; they can neither ait a hook nor rade a line, houk sand eels nor gather pirriwinkles.

Now, Wise Willie and Witty Eppie the ale wife lived there about a hundred years ago: Eppie's chamber was their College and Court-house where they decided controversies, &