To gie the eel a turn.

O bide, lady, bide, &c.

(turn, trick.)

Then she became a duck, a duck,

To puddle in a peel,

And he became a rose-kaimed drake,

To gie the duck a dreel.

O bide, lady, bide, &c.

She turned hersel' into a hare,

To rin upon yon hill,