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As for your hen wi' the happity leg,laddie ye're either daft or fou!D'ye think that I can dine on ae egg?'deed friend ye're makin game o' me now.

Ye say ye've a pig that will soon be a sow,laddie I like the truth to tell; When ye brag o' your ca't that'll soon be a cow,I'm flee'd ye're but a ca'f yoursell.

An' for your kebbock upo' the skelf,hark, an' I'll tell you how to do;You maun ta'k o' naething but luve for luve,for that's the gate a young lass to woo.

For gin I could think you liket me weel,laddie I tell you truly now;I wad leave my daddie and minnie atweel,and blythly the night gang aff wi' you.

Divider from 'Three Herring in Sa't, with The Answer', a chapbook printed in Glasgow in 1799

THE LADIES' AMUSEMENT.

This morning is so very fine, we'll to the meadows walk,And when we to the town return,with shop-men we will talk. And a shoping we will go.

We'll look at ribbons, laces, gloves,and none of them we'll buy,But tell the haberdasher lads,we'll ca another day.And, &c.