Tho’ nine months aft brings quick or dead,

Into their laps.

Experience thus makes me speak,

I ance was hooked wi’ the cleek,

I almost had beshit my breek,

When Maggy told,

That by her saul, not e’en a week

Young Jack would hold.

She was sae stiff she cou’d not loot;

Your pranks she says, are now found out,