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A variant of the last line :— 
And wee Willie Winkie paid for a’. 
45. Inch.—Of the face :— 
This is the broo of knowledge, 
This is the ee of life, 
This is the bubbly ocean, 
This is the pratie knife. 
A variant of the third line is :— 
This is the snokie college. 
46. Inch.—Dandling the child :— 
This is the way the ladies ride, 
Mim, mim, mim ; 
This is the way the gentlemen ride, 
Gallop-a-trot, gallop-a-trot. 
47. Inch.— 
The way the ladies ride (softly), 
The way the gentlemen trot (move quickly), 
Cadgers, creels an a’ (roughly). 
48. Mochrum.—Bathing in the sea is done when the tide is ebbing. 
It is believed that, if there is any disease, the tide carries it in, and that 
one, bathing when the tide is flowing, may catch it. 
49. Inch.—A cure for whooping cough was to put the patient under the 
belly and over the back of an ass. 
50. Minnigaffi—A cure for the same disease is to take the patient down 
the shaft of a mine (lead). 
51. Mochrum.—Patients labouring under whooping-cough are carried to 
Chapel Finnan Well, and given a draught of its waters. 
52. Wigtownshire (known over).—The well of St. Medana (St. Maiden) 
in the parish of Glasserton is resorted to for the cure of whooping-cough. At 
times the water is carried away for the same purpose. Not long ago a 
lady of title had a quantity of it sent to be administered to some 
members of her household that were suffering from the disease. 
52a. Kirkmaiden.—There is a well at St. Medan’s cave, at which 
visitors were in the habit of leaving pins, buttons, and suchlike small 
articles. Some may still be seen around it. 
53. Mochrum.—To get a ‘piece’! from a married woman having the 
same name as her husband effected a cure of whooping-cough. 
54. Mochrum.—A cure for the bite of an adder is to kill a chicken, split 
it up, and while still warm tie the whole bird over the wound. 
55. Minnigaffi—A mode of curing warts is by ‘selling’ them. The one 
‘that has the warts takes as many stones as there are warts, ties them into 
a ‘bundle,’ and lays it on the public road. Whoever comes across it and 
opens it gets the warts. 
56. Mochrum.—One mode of curing a cow or other domestic animal 
was to strike the teeth with a clew of blue yarn. My informant has seen 
this done. 
57. Minnigaff—When one was dying the window or windows of the 
apartment were opened. 
) A little bit of anything given to a person, particularly a child, to eat. 
