The History of Leith

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February 19, 2006

Regarding a fishwife and a fish-hauliers journey


Baiting the Line Newhaven
An Accounts of the Comical Courtship between a Fishwife and a Haddie Carter, shewing what past while in the Steam-Boat between Newhaven and Musselburgh, and what happened after landing, how she went to see the shows, and what the Black Art Man told her, which was the beginning of her troubles, and the desperate Battle which was fought betwixt some fishwifes and her, on the Race course, with an account of a trick played
her, and other awful misfortunes. for more click here

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