“A gleib o’ lan’—a claut o’ gear

Was left me by my auntie, Tam.”

Burns. Ane an’ twenty, Tam.

“Bruff-side lairds bang’t aw the rest

For braggin’ o’ their gear.”

Anderson. Bleckell Murry-Neet.

Ged, S, the pike.

“Now safe the stately saumon sail,

An’ trouts bedropp’d wi’ crimson hail,

An’ eels weel kenn’d for souple tail,