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T'HE MILLER.
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When Jamie first did woo -me,
I speir'd whatwas his calling:
"Fair maid, says he, O rome and see;
Te're -welcome-to my dwalling."
Tho' I was shy, ye*- 1 could spy
The truth of what'he told me,
And that his house was warm and < oulli,
And room in it to hold me .
Behind the door a bag of meal,
And in the kist was plenty
Of good hard cakes, his mither bakes,
And bannocks -were na scanty;
\ good fat sow, a sleeky cow
Was standing in the byre ;
While lazy pnss -with mealy mouse
» Was playing at the fire.
G-pod sig-ns are these 1 , my mither says,
And bids me tak the miller;
For foul -day ftnd fair day
He's ay bringing till her;
For meal and mant she does na want,
Nor ony thing thats dainty,
And now and then a keekling- hen
To lay her eggs in plenty.
In winter,when the wind and rain
Blaws o'er the house and byre,
He sits beside a clean liearth-stane,
Before a ronsing fire:
His canty wife has a' things right,
A supper warm and sappy;
Wha'd be a King, a petty thing,
When a Miller lives sae happy?