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The next exploit was, an action at law against the goodman of Muiredge, a farmer who lived near by, that kept sheep and swine. His sheep came down and broke their yards, and ate up their kail; and the wild hares they thought belonged to the same man, as they ran to his house when they were hunted. The swine came very often in about their houses, seeking fish-guts and ony thing they could get. So it happened, when one of the children was sitting easing itself, that one of the swine tumbled it over, and bit a piece out of its backside! The whole town rose in an uproar against poor grumphie, as they called her, and takes her before Wise Willie. Willie took an axe and cut two or three in- ches off her long nose. Willie, I trow I hae made thee some- thing like another beast; thou had sic a lang mouth before, it wada frighted a very deil to look at ye; but now ye're fac'd like a little horse or cow. The poor sow ran home roaring, all blood, and wanting the nose; which caused Now, says
