Perhaps as a person willing and anxious to give every man his due, it is necessary for me explicitly to mention, that, in the course of this book, I am indebted to my friend James Batter, for his able help in assisting me to spell the kittle words, and in rummaging out scraps of poem-books for headpieces to my different chapters which appear in the table of contents.
LIST OF CONTENTS
Preliminaries
I. Our Old Grandfather,
II. My Own Father,
The weaver he gied up the stair,
Dancing and singing;
A bunch o’ bobbins at his back,
Rattling and ringing.Old Song.
III. Coming Into The World,
—At first the babe
Was sickly; and a smile was seen to pass
Across the midwife’s cheek, when, holding up
The feeble wretch, she to the father said,
“A fine man-child!” What else could they expect?
The father being, as I said before,
A weaver.Hogg’s Poetic Mirror.
IV. Calf-Love,
Bonny lassie, will ye go, will ye go, will ye go,
Bonny lassie, will ye go to the Birks of Aberfeldy?Burns.
For a tailor is a man, a man, a man,
And a tailor is a man.Popular Heroic Song.