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RHYMES CONNECTED WITH NEW-YEAR, &C. 303
Black Knight.
What will you take to cure this dead man ?
Doctor.
Ten pounds.
Black Knight.
Will not one do ?
Doctor.
No.
Black Knight.
Will not three do ?
Doctor.
No.
Black Knight.
Will not five do ?
Doctor.
No.
Black Knight.
Will not seven do ?
Doctor.
No.
Black Knight.
Will not nine do ?
Doctor.
Yes, perhaps — nine may do, and a pint of ^^ine.
I have a little bottle of inlcer-pinker * in my pocket.
{Aside to Galatian.) Take a little drop of it.
By the hocus-pocus, and the magical touch of my little finger.
Start up, John !
Galatian rises, and exclaims—
Oh, my back !
Doctor.
What aUs your back ?
Galatian.
There's a hole in't you may turn your nieve ten times round
in it.

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Popular rhymes of Scotland
DescriptionOriginal poems / by Robert Chambers.
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