As they clutched their mackintoshes.

But then a sullen murmur

Through the angry Marshers ran,

And the word was passed from mouth to mouth,

Till it reached from rear to van:

“Seize on those haughty Dryburghers,

And duck them in our lake,

And their jackets blue, and their rackets too,

From those proud ones let us take.”

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