Scarce worth the while to say or sing—
For this is what I’m boun’ to rhyme on:—
The mem’ry o’ a denty quean,
I couldna draw a plain-spak’ word frae;
Scarce heard ava—no fairly seen—
An’ never efter seen or heard frae.
A’ day we’d stey’t at Corrie Common,
Drinkin’, thrawin’ quoits, an’ jeerin’;
An’ doon to Stidriggs, or the gloamin’,
Five wil’ chiel’s we gaed careerin’.