Childken's Khvmes. 53 



Wlieii lie liad done what man could do, 

 The cow came home and her tail behind her. 



Mr (Jarljle also gives his reminiscence of an old Scotch song 

 given at tlie same date. 



\oung Jockey was a jjiper's son, 

 And fell in love when lie m'rs young. 

 But a' the tunes he learned to play 

 Was over tlie hills and far away. 

 And its over the hills and far away. 

 The wind lias blown my plaid away. 



The Dumfriesshire magpie gets more lines thaii usual : — 



One's sorrow, two's mirth, 



Three's a wedding, four's a birtli, 



Five's a funeral, six is snaw, 



Seven draws the dead awa'. 

 When boys saw one they used to spit hastily three times to spit 

 away sorrow. In English Folk Lore, by Thiselton Dyer, other 

 three variants are given, but not the one above. 



The children's Hogmanay rhyme in Dumfriesshire is more 

 pohte than its Renfrewshire version. 



Hogmanay, troll lol lay, 



Gie's a piece o' pancake 



And let us win away ; 



We neither came to your door 



To beg nor to borrow. 



But we came to your door 



To sing away sorrow. 



Get up gudewife and shake your feathers, 



Dinna think that we are beggars, 



But boys and girls come out to play, 



And to seek our Hogmanay. 



There is a children's game beginning with a rhyme. 'Ilie 

 rhymster touches alternately two boys, beginning :— 



As I gaed up the apple tree, 

 A' the apples fell on me. 



And ending with the lines : — 



Bake a pudding, bake a pie, 

 Stand you there out bye. 



