...despises ! But to our tale. Ae market night, Tarn had got planted unco right ; Fast by an ingle, bleesing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely ; And at his elbow, souter Johnnie, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither ; They had been fou...

...lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had got planted unco right Fast by an ingle, bleezing...for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter, And aye the ale was growing better : The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret,...

...lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had got planted unco right Fast by an ingle, bleezing...him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegitber. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter, And aye the ale was growing better: The landlady...

...lengthen'd sage advises, The hushand frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market- night, TAM had got planted unco right Fast by an ingle, bleezing...ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; TAM lo'ed him like a very brither ; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter;' And...

...Her sons drink not by the hour or by the day, but by the week, — witness Souter Johnny : — " Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks thegither." Swallowing no thin washy potation, but a strong overproof spirit, with a smack of smoke — and " where...

...right ; Fast hy an ingle, hleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely : And at his elhow, souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; Tam lo'ed him like a vera hlither ; They had heen fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs an' clatter; And aye...

...Her sons drink not by the hour or by the day, but by the week, — witness Souter Johnny : — " Tain lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks thegither." Swallowing no thin washy potation, but a strong overproof spirit, with a smack of smoke — and " where...

...stretch of imagination to believe it the one alluded to in the former anecdote, and wkn we got planted " Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi reaming swats that drank divinely," we summoned before us Tam and his " drouthy crony," and once again it seemed as though 4' The landlady...

...besides. Her sons drink not by the hour or by the day, but by the week, — witness Souter Johnny : — " Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks thegither." Swallowing no thin washy potation, but a strong overproof spirit, with a smack of smoke — and " where...

...his elbow, souier Johnnie, His ancient, truslv, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brillier; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs an' clalter ; And aye the ale was growing belter : The landlady and T;im grew gracious ; Wi* favors, secre!,...