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21 With eagerness he stepped each stair, Popp'd into the room-his wife was there; 'O come to my ar s,' he said, 'my dear!' When his steamer smash'd the crockery ware. Ri too ral, &c.

He left his house at length outright, And wanders now just like a sprite; For he can't get sleep either day or night, And his arm keeps moving with ten or might, Ri too ral, &c.

THE JOLLY BEGGAR.

THERE was a jolly beggar, and a-begging he was born, And he took up his quarters into a hand art thou, And we'll gang nae mair a roving, a roving in the night, We'll gang nae mair a roving, let the moon shine e'er so bright, We'll gang nae mair a roving.

He wad neither he in-barn, nor yet wad he in byre, But in ahint the ha' door, or she afore the fire, Aud we'll gang une' mair a roving, &c.

The beggar's bed was made at e'en, wi' gude clean straw and And in ahint the ha' door, and there the beggar lay,' [hay, And we'll gang nae mair a roving, &c.

Up raise the gudeman dochter, and for to har the door, And there she saw the beggar man standing the floor. And we'll gang nae mair a roving, &c.

I took a horn fine his side, and h'ew baith loud and shrill, And four and twenty belted knights came shipping o'er the And we'll gang nae mair a roving, &c. [hill,

And he took out his little knife, loot a' his duddies fa,' And he was the brawest gentleman that he was amang them a' And we'll gang nae mair a roving, &c.