(Vol. ii., p. 517.)
Your correspondent Mac is mistaken when he says that no words are used in the Scottish dance of "Bab at the Bowster:" I have myself "babbed at the Bowster" within the last few years. Upon that occasion the words sung by the company while dancing round the individual bearing the "bowster" were—
"Wha learn'd you to dance,
You to dance, you to dance,
Wha learn'd you to dance
Bab at the bowster brawly?"
To which the "bowster-bearer" replies—
"My mither learned me to dance,
Me to dance, me to dance,
My mither learned me to dance