Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches

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auing (if it,' many a time I kave loft
my maidenhead with great pleafure,
and it ay came back again to its
ain place, but Til never gather up
my milk.
A drover who frequented a public
inn in the north of England, as he
palled and repalled, agreed with the
fervant maid of the houfe for a touch
of-lo ve ; for which he gave her a fix
and thirty {hilling piece : On the next
morning he mounted his horfe, with¬
out afldng abill or what was to pay
but fir, laid the landlord, you forgot'
to pay your reckoning: Well minded,
fir, I forgot my change ; the maid was
called in all ha lie ; yes, faid (he I g'ot
it, but it was not for that, throws it
down and olT Ihe goes : her miftreis
gave her thq challenge, Ihe told her it
was fo, but fie Ihpuld be up with
him ' Twelvd months after, he com¬
ing paft with his drove, puts up at the
fame irm,-as Tormerly : The girl then
goes to a-neighbour woman, who had a
young child about three months old,
lays it‘on' the table, laying, fir, there’s
the change of your fix and thirty and