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[ 11 ] Quoth Thrummy, Friend I want to know What brings you frae the ſhades below? I in my Maker's name command You tell your or juſt aff h n ? Fat wa ye ha ?-I'll do my beſt For you, to let you be at reſt. Then ſays the Ghaiſt. 'Tis thirty year S nce I've been doom'd to wander here; In all tha time there has been none B av'd fae bold as ye have done: S e if you'll do a j b for me, Diſturbance mair I'll never gie. Say on your tale, quoth Thrummy, I To do you juice ſure will try. Then mark me weel, the Ghaiſt reply'd And ye ſhall ſoon be ſatisfy'd: Frae this aback near forty year, I of this place was overſeer, When this Laird's father had the land, A' thing was then at my command, Wi' power to do as I thought fit, In ilka cauſe I chief did ſit: The Laird paid great reſpect to me, But I an ill return did gi'e: The Title-Deeds of his Eſtate Out of the ſame I did him cheat, And flaw them frae here they did lie; Some days before the Laird did die.. H s ſon at that time was in France, And fae I thought I'd hae a chance, Of he fud n-ver come again, That the Eſtate would be my ain.