[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...

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Without a wife to comfort life.
And keep us hail, and wag about.
I am a jolly farming man,
Wi' carts and ploughs and routh o' nout,
A mailin cheap o' hearty Ian',
But something still I want I doubt.
I hae a lairdship i' the town.
And siller i'
the bank to bout,
Wi' barrels fou o' nappy brown.
But whar's the ane to han't about.
I hae a byre fou o' kye.
And plenty baith within and out
But O ! sae lanely's I maun lie,
And gaunt and grane and toss about.
My stables are wi' naigies rife
Baith lan's and furrows fat and stout
But still I want a dainty wife,
To daut and lay my arm about.
I'm no that auld, I'm no that frail,
Sae ere anither year is out,
I'll hae a lassie to mysel'
To keep me beil, and wag about.
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Mr Lennox, Superintendent of the Poor in Ayr, is the author of these l
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canty lines. Should we meet encouragement to go on with a Second f
Series of the " Ballads and Songs of Ayrshibe,"^ we shall have more i
to present from his pen. {
AYR :
COMPOSED AT THE AQRICnLTtTRlST OFFICE.
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