l^gi, LITERART INTELLIGENCER. *«>S 



For rinnin' through the ftreet like drift ; 



For kiffin' an' for clappin' ; 

 For clearin' up the mind an' fight, 



Wi a weel made het chapin, 



Fu' ftrang that morn. 



By twal o'clock we tak the ftreet, 



There reel about like mad 

 While aft we get frae fome we meet 



O' guid fnort bread X a dad. 

 Then lafles lips like cherries fweet§, 



We maun that morning prie. 

 Though for't we get a braw red cheek 



Unlefs we be fu' flee. 



To jink that morn. 



Hech wafe my heart, a barber lad 



Did meafure the flreet fairly, 

 An' roar'd an' rav'd like one ftark mad, 



He baud fa'an til't ower early. 

 A cellar upo' the high ftreet, 



'Bout onie ravel bare, 

 Gart the puir fcraper tyne his feet, 



An' tumble down the ftair. 



The creels that morn. 



A wee drap drink is unco good 



As lang's we keep frae anger. 

 It pits ane in a merry mood, 



An' keeps them out o' langer. 

 But troth I'm flied that fome daft chiel, 



To fome wrang place will ftammer, 

 ^n' fair againft his will atweel 



H'eU fee the counfel chammer. 

 For it next mom. 



ADSE. 



\ Sho)t bread, a kind of cake made of flour with butter and f-igar 

 baked hard. That and other fweet c&kes are then diilributed liberally 

 to all gucfts io every lamily. 



§ It was the uuiverfal cuftom in Scotland, till of late, for every male, 

 to falute, by kifling, every female •f bis ae^uaintar.ce, tic firll time he 

 met her In the rew rear. 



