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Then Sally pu'd the gowans wat wi' dew an' twined her bree wi' tasseled broom, while I had a wee crackie wi' Tibby Buchan, the flesher's dochter frae Auld Reekie.

Crackie! but I’m glad pap’s sold out.

Crackie! but you frightened us at first!”

By crackie!" and he slapped his knee again, "I have it!

A dog barked—Pat Kavanagh's black crackie—and the whisper of the tide fumbling at edges of ice came up from the land-wash below the fish-house and drying-stages.