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188 POPULAR RHYMES OF SCOTLAND.
« What gie they?'
* Milk and whey ! '
* Wha sups it?'
*Tain Taits and I !'
—From recitation in Perthshire.
' Whistle, whistle, auld wife,
And ye'se get a hen.'
/l/t^ c__, *I wadna whistle,' quo' the wife,
^ * Though ye wad gie me ten.'
Jti^rvi^'^^ /'^^ 'Whistle, whistle, auld wife,
y / ' And ye'se get a cock.'
^ll L 'JiS^ i*^4 < I wadna whistle,' quo' the wife,
* Though ye wad gie me a flock.'
' Whistle, whistle, auld wife,
And ye'se get a man.'
'Wheep-whaup !' quo' the wife,
* I'll whistle as I can.'
There was a miller's dochter.
She couldna want a babie, ;
She took her father's greyhound.
And rowed it in a plaidie, O.
Saying, * Hush a ba ! hush a ba !
Hush a ba, my babie, O ;
An 'twere na for your lang beard,
Oh I wad kiss your gabbie, !'
How dan, dilly dow,
How den dan,
Weel were your minny
An ye were a man.
Ye would hunt and hawk,
And baud her o' game,
And water your daddy's horse
r the mill-dam.
How dan, dilly dow,
How dan flours,
Ye'se lie i' your bed
Till eleven hours.
If at eleven hours
You list to rise,
Ye'se hae your dinner dight
In a new guise ;