13^ NOTES ON COLDTNGHAM 



" We'll hunt the Pootie through the Press, 

 We'll hunt her through and through ; 

 We'll hunt the Pootie through the Press, 

 Her beauty we'll pursue. 

 She has a lad in Coudingham 

 Anither in the Law, 

 But the bonniest lad among them a' 

 Is the Stewart o' Purris Ha'." 



Explanatory Note of Meanings. 



Cuddies — donkeys. 



Baddies — folk ; people. 



Clashes — gossip. 



Pootie — niggardly, mean, stingy. (Berwickshire word ) 



Press — the name of a farm near Coldihgham. 



