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23 Sae round dame grumphy's handsome leg The rape I soon did tie, man, And wi' supple birken twig, I drave her out o' the sty man Wi' Mattie straight I bade gude e'en And briskly to the road we tame; But scarcely fifty yards we'd gane, When madam sow impatient grew, And soon I trow, made me to rue, That her changed to buy, man. For being o' the fenal breed, She proved a stubborn jade, man; Were I to flee the brute alive, She'd aye hae her ain road, man. I wanted east, but she'd be wast, Or any way she liked best, And did my brains sae fairly pest; Till in my wraith, wi' mony an aith, I vowed her skaith, and kicked her baith, And gart her squeak aloud man.

SPOKEN.-Odd, she was the most positive b-h o' a row that ever was born, she would neither gang her ain road nor the way I wanted her; through pound and ditch she spanked me haudin' on like grim death, for I was maint grown as determin'd as herself, and I daursay I would hae managed her, had it not been for a counfounded muckle stane that tripp'd me- and down I gade a' thy length in the gaur, map gade the rape, and awa ran the sow

But though pig's flesh it never mair Should be my lot to pree, man; vow and wear anither sow Will ne'er be bought by me, man,