O'er loop or cronnie:

You wadna croop to sic a weel;

But lilt your Johnnie!

Sae let the pawkie carlin scraw,

And hoolie, wi' outlandish craw,

Kail weedies frae the ingle draw

As blyth as honie;

Amang the thummart dawlit wa'

To lilt your Johnnie!

THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN SEPTEMBER.