Uncanny, slow, and hard to please,—
And querulous in thy tirade
As shrewish wife or sour old maid—
When too much “whusky” stings thy brow,
An unco’ sarcy devil thou!
(Slightly!) altered from Scott (to Scot).
A Good Wife.
“But, on the whole, Chloe is a good wife. If I have a cold she dresses me in linseed poultices, and doses me with all kinds of potions; and even in my suffering I can appreciate the poetic exclamation—
“Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,