Pays fer wer glasses gahin ti t’ taps,
Drink, Drink, Drink.
Quite a collection of these catch-songs might be made; they are all quaint, and if they point to days when things were a trifle different, we must bear in mind that a hundred years hence we shall be pretty severely criticized.
Birth.
The future of a child greatly depends upon which day it is born.
A Munday’s bairn will grow up fair,
A Tuesday’s yan i’ grace thruff prayer,
A Wednesday’s bairn ’ez monny a paain,
A Tho’sday’s bairn weean’t bahd at heeam.
A Friday’s bairn is good an’ sweet,