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[, Junr., editor of "The Glasgow Citizen."]

[ find the original of this in the Scots Magazine for July, 1802, where it is signed "Duncan Gray." There are some verbal differences between the old copy and the present.]

Jenny sat down wi' her wheel by the fire,

An' thought o' the time that was fast fleein' by'er,

She said to hersel' wi' a heavy hoch hie,

Oh! a' body's like to be married but me.

My youthfu' companions are a' worn awa',

And though I've had wooers mysel' ane or twa;

Yet a lad to my mind I ne'er could yet see,

Oh! a' body's like to be married but me.

There's Lowrie, the lawyer, would ha'e me fu' fain

Who has baith a house an' a yard o' his ain:

But before I'd gang to it I rather wad die,

A wee stumpin' body! he'll never get me.