CHILDREN’S RHYMES. 53 
When he had done what man could do, 
The cow came home and her tail behind her. 
Mr Carlyle also gives his reminiscence of an old Scotch song 
given at the same date. 
Young Jockey was a piper’s son, 
And fell in love when he was young, 
But a the tunes he learned to play 
Was over the hills and far away. 
And its over the hills and far away, 
The wind has blown my plaid away. 
The Dumfriesshire magpie gets more lines than usual :— 
One’s sorrow, two’s mirth, 
Three’s a wedding, four’s a birth, 
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 L£uxglish Folk Lore, by Thiselton Dyer, other 
three variants are given, but not the one above. 
The children’s Hogmanay rhyme in Dumfriesshire is more 
polite than its Renfrewshire version. 
Hogmanay, troll lol iay, 
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. The 
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. 
