Scotia's food : The soupe their only hawkie does afford, That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood ; The dame brings forth in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell ; An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal... The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 184edited by - 1722Full view - About this book
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck,fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal witie, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wine, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1820 - 458 pages
...lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell, An1 aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. XII. The cheerftf supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er,... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns... | |
| Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...lad, her weel-haiii'd kebbuck, fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. XII. The cheerfn' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns... | |
| Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...the simple board with her " weelhain'd kebbuck" (cheese kept in store), he makes her " Garrulously tell How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell."* The writer recollects being struck with the expressions of an old woman, who was setting forth to her... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid: The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...iell An' an he's press'd, an' aft he ca's it good ; The frugal wifie garrulous will tell, How 'thas a towmond auld, sin' lint was I ' the bell. XII. The cheerfu' sapper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er wi'... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wine, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. XII. The eheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns... | |
| Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 pages
...good ; I he frugal wifle garrulous will tell. How 'thasa towmoiid auld, sin' lint was V the bell. xn. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face' They, round the ingle, form a circle wide • J he sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big Ha'-BMe, ance his father's pride • His bonnet... | |
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