Beef, bacon, and butter, he eats;

And ne’er hunts for a mouse nor a rat,

But sups upon savory meats.

He has lunch’d up two large lamb legs,

Of our bannocks he’s not left a bit;

And has scar’d the old hen off her eggs,

And she’s drown’d in the kirn-milk kit.

He mucks in our mickle meal-chest,

He spews in the cistern of salt;

In our kale-pot and cogies he’s piss’d,