Part 42 (2/2)

I drave my cart out ow'r a dike, My horses in a miry, O!

I wear my stockings white an' blue, My love's sae fierce an' fiery, O!

I drill the land that I should pleugh, An' pleugh the drills entirely, O!

O, love, love, love! etc.

Ae morning, by the dawn o' day, I rase to theek the stable, O!

I keust my coat, and plied away As fast as I was able, O!

I wrought that morning out an' out, As I'd been redding fire, O!

When I had done an look'd about, Gudefaith, it was the byre, O!

O, love, love, love! etc.

Her wily glance I'll ne'er forget, The dear, the lovely blinkin o't Has pierced me through an' through the heart, An' plagues me wi' the prinking o't.

I tried to sing, I tried to pray, I tried to drown't wi' drinkin' o't, I tried with sport to drive't away, But ne'er can sleep for thinkin' o't.

O, love, love, love! etc.

Nae man can tell what pains I prove, Or how severe my pliskie, O!

I swear I'm sairer drunk wi' love Than ever I was wi' whiskey, O!

For love has raked me fore an' aft, I scarce can lift a leggie, O!

I first grew dizzy, then gaed daft, An' soon I'll dee for Peggy, O!

O, love, love, love!

Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

_James Hogg._

THE KITCHEN CLOCK

Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly, Doing nothing sits the ch.o.r.e boy, Billy: ”Seconds reckoned, Seconds reckoned; Every minute, Sixty in it.

Milly, Billy, Billy, Milly, Tick-tock, tock-tick, Nick-knock, knock-nick, Knockety-nick, nickety-knock,”-- Goes the kitchen clock.

Closer to the fire is rosy Milly, Every whit as close and cosy, Billy: ”Time's a-flying, Worth your trying; Pretty Milly-- Kiss her, Billy!

Milly, Billy, Billy, Milly, Tick-tock, tock-tick, Now--now, quick--quick!

Knockety-nick, nickety-knock,”-- Goes the kitchen clock.

Something's happened, very red is Milly, Billy boy is looking very silly; ”Pretty misses, Plenty kisses; Make it twenty, Take a plenty.

Billy, Milly, Milly, Billy, Right--left, left--right, That's right, all right, Knockety-nick, nickety-knock,”-- Goes the kitchen clock.

<script>