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BUCK-HAVEN IN FIFE-SHIRE. 17 (illegible text) Otting wi' a young 'orſe on her knee, dighting its arſe, and gien it de pap. The next occaſion was Lang Sandy, and Ro- icching Jenny's wedding; which held three days and twa nights, my Lord and my Lady, with fe- peral gentlemen and ladies, attended for diverſion's fake, the piper of Kirkcaldy and the ſidler of King- orn, were both bidden by Wife Willy the bride's sather, and if ony mae came to play unbidden, Wife Willy ſwore they ſhould fit unfair'd, for heſe twa ſhould get a' the filler that was to be pien or won that day, the dinner and dorder-meat it a' in Eppie's college, and the dancing ſtood in wa rings before the door, and the firſt day, with Hunting and dangling of their heels, dang down he fea-dyke, ſome tumbled in and ſome held by he ſtanes, the fidler feil oʻer the lugs an drouket his fiddle, the ſtrings gade out of order, and the pipes turned faftlike pudding Nars, ſo the bag- ipe had to do fora, and the ſidler gor nought to o but ſup kail, and pike banes wi' the reſt o' them. Now my Lord's cook was to order the kettle, ut Pate o the Pans play'd a fad prat, by caſting