The Auld Farmers New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
; i were young an' skeigh,
an' stable-meals at fairs were dreigh,
how thou rance, and snore, an' skreigh
an' tak the road!
town's-bodies ran, an' stood abeigh,
an' ca't thee mad.
when thou was 't, an' i was mellow,
we took the road aye like a swallow:
at brooses thou had ne'er a fellow,
for pith an' speed;
but ev'ry tail thou pay't them hollowm
whare'er thou gaed.
the sma', droop-rumpl't, hunter cattle
might aiblins waur't thee for a brattle;
but sax scotch mile, thou
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