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Rh Our gossiping neighbours come dribbling in, And aye keep a body fu' canty, fu' canty, And aye keep a body fu' canty.

But our thoughts like the weather are given to I sigh'd day and night to get married; [change, And I'm sure gif there aught like a man had made love, His suit wi' me soon he had carried—had car- His suit wi' me soon he had carried[ried—

My aunty's sae peevish, her temper's sae sour, She wearies us a' wi' inspection; She frowns at the mark o' a prin on the floor, Our neighbours a' ca' her Perfection—Perfec- Our neighbous a' ca' her Perfection.[tion—

The hale o' her pleasure is snuff and green tea, And her auld-fashion'd satins to number; Ae day she wad try how her hoops fitted me, And near squeezed my body asunder—asun- And near squeezed my body asunder.[der—

She sneers like the fox when I speak about men, I wonder what she makes a wark at— For I'm sure if her mother's example she'd ta'en She never had stood in the market—the mar- She never had stood in the market.[ket—

But wha but our neighbour's son Johnny's come hame Since the wars were so happily ended?