‘O had you a stranger here last night,

Or is he within your dwalling?’

9

‘O I had a stranger here last night,

But he wos gane or dawing;

He ca’d for a pint, and he paid it or he went,

And I hae nae mair to do wi his lawing.’

10

They stabd the feather-beds round and round,

The curtains they spared na to tear them;