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at a cow’s; flake, and what other place
would you want to ken about ? but laid
he, did he not tye you to the cow’s
flake ? No, faid Ihe, I did not need
any tying ; and how far was between
the byre and the houfe ? Juft but and
ben, up and down twa flaps of a ftane
flair : Then fays the; pried: why did
yOu.pqt cry to the folks in the houfe?
indeed fir, fays {he, I could not get
cried for the laughing at it
A foldier being on a forlough from
the north of Scotland, having got no
breahfaftj. fell very hungry by the way
and no alehoufe being near, came in
to a farmer’s houfe and wilhed them
to fell him fonie bread, or any kind of
victuals ; to whch the furly goodwife
replied, Ihe never fold any bread, and
was not going to begin with him, he
had but three miles and a bittock to
an alehoufe, and he might walk on,
as die did fair enough when ftie gied
bits of bread for naetbing to beggars,
tho’ /he gied nune to idle foldiers, he
had naething to do there awa\ Hout,
faid the goodman-, gie’m-a ladlefu’ o’
out kail, he’s been fomebody’s bairn
at a cow’s; flake, and what other place
would you want to ken about ? but laid
he, did he not tye you to the cow’s
flake ? No, faid Ihe, I did not need
any tying ; and how far was between
the byre and the houfe ? Juft but and
ben, up and down twa flaps of a ftane
flair : Then fays the; pried: why did
yOu.pqt cry to the folks in the houfe?
indeed fir, fays {he, I could not get
cried for the laughing at it
A foldier being on a forlough from
the north of Scotland, having got no
breahfaftj. fell very hungry by the way
and no alehoufe being near, came in
to a farmer’s houfe and wilhed them
to fell him fonie bread, or any kind of
victuals ; to whch the furly goodwife
replied, Ihe never fold any bread, and
was not going to begin with him, he
had but three miles and a bittock to
an alehoufe, and he might walk on,
as die did fair enough when ftie gied
bits of bread for naetbing to beggars,
tho’ /he gied nune to idle foldiers, he
had naething to do there awa\ Hout,
faid the goodman-, gie’m-a ladlefu’ o’
out kail, he’s been fomebody’s bairn
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches > (20) |
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Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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