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moonlight o' our ain a' the days o the year. The whole town ran to see the moon! Heut tout said Witty Eppie, ye're but a' fools thegither; it's but ane o' the things it 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 sot knowing what it was, cailed out to her reighbours to see it Some said it was a Gentlemans cat, or my lady's lap-dis, or a sheep's young kitten, because it had saft horns: Na, na, cried Wise Willie, it's ane o' the maukins ir gentlemens dogs worries. What will we do wi't? Staith, co' they all, we'll sing the weo aff, and make fish and sauce o't to my Tammie's parrich. Na, na, said Witty Eppie, better gie it to my Lord, and hell stap an iron stick through the gut's o't, and gar't rin round atore the fire till it be roasted.