While burnèn sticks did hiss an' crack,

An' fleämes did bleäzy up the back,

There he zung so proud

In a bakky cloud,

"I'm out o' debt an' out o' danger,

An' I can feäce a friend or stranger;

I've a vist vor friends, an' I'll vind a peäir

Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meare."

From market how he used to ride,

Wi' pot's a-bumpèn by his zide