I might as weel hae tried a quarry

O' hard whin rock.

‘E'en them he canna get attended,

Altho' their face he ne'er had kenn'd it,

Just sh— in a kail-blade, and send it, cabbage-leaf

As soon's he smells't,

Baith their disease, and what will mend it,

At once he tells't.

‘And then a' doctor's saws and whittles,

Of a' dimensions, shapes, an' mettles,