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The lassie then she did get up to bar the kitchen-door,

An there she met the jolly beggar, standing naked on the floor.

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He gript the lassie by the middle jimp, laid her against the wa,

‘O kind sir,’ she said, ‘be civil, for ye will wake my dadda.’

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He never minded what she said, but carried on his stroke,

Till he got his job done, then he began to joke.

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