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MISCELLANEOUS RHYMES. 319
DIFFERENT KINDS OF MALT LIQUOR.
There's first guid ale, and syne guid ale,
And second ale, and some,
Hink-skink, and plouglunan's drink,
And scour-the-gate, and trim.
DESCRIPTION OF AN EXECUTION IN EDINBURaH.
The boys of our northern capital had a rhyme upon this
subject, which describes every particular, even to the streets
embraced by the sad procession, with emphatic brevity —
Up the Lawnmarket,
DoAvn tlie West Bow ;
Up the lang ladder,
Down the little tow.
REBUS ON FOUR GENERATIONS.
Rise, daughter, and go to your daughter,
For your daughter's daughter has had a daughter.
— ' In our abridged and septuag'esimal ages, it is very rare,
and deserves a distich, to behold the fourth generation.
Mater ait natcB, die nates Jilia^ S^^c. — Broivne's Vulgar
Errors.
LANARKSHIRE RHYME ON MARRIAGE.
Set a lass on Tintock tap,
Gin she ha'e the penny siller.
The wind will blaw a man till her ;
But gin she want the penny siller,
Tliere'll ne'er a ane be evened till her !
LANARKSHIRE RHYME ON ILL-GOT WEALTH.
Gair-gathered siller
Will no hand thegither ;
The heir wiU be careless.
His wife mibly waur ;
Their weans will be fearless,
And fa' in the glaur.
PREPARATIONS FOR TRAVELLING.
There's muckle ado when muirland folk ride —
Boots, and spurs, and a' to provide !
— A Peeblesshire proverbial expression, used jocularly when