Death and Doctor Hornbook
or mite-horn shavings, filings, scrapings,
distill'd per se;
sal-alkali o' midge-tail clippings,
and mony mae.”
“waes me for johnie ged's hole now,”
"h i, “if that thae news be true!
his braw calf-ward whare gowans grew,
sae white and bonie,
nae doubt they'll rive it wi' the plew;
they'll ruin johnie!”
the creature grain'd an eldritch ugh,
and says “ye needna yoke the pleugh,
kirkyards will sooill'd eneugh,
tak ye nae fear:
they'll be trench'd wi' mony a sheugh,
in twa-three year.
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