—Smoke. A wastle is a North country term for a twig or withy, possibly connected with A. S. wædl.
I've seen you where you never was,
And where you ne'er will be;
And yet you in that very same place
May still be seen by me.
—The reflection of a face in a looking-glass.
Banks full, braes full,
Though ye gather all day,
Ye'll not gather your hands full.
—The mist. From Northumberland. Sometimes thus:
A hill full, a hole full,
Ye cannot catch a bowl full.
A young man and a young woman quarrelled, and the former, in his anger, exclaimed,—
Three words I know to be true,
All which begin with W.
The young woman immediately guessed the enigma, and replied in a similar strain,—
I too know them,
And eke three which begin with M.