 | C. Hope - 1881 - 410 pagine
...leave more to one child than to another, merely on account of a difference in age or sex. CHAPTEE XII. Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factor's snash ; He '11 stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear, He '11 apprehend them, poind their gear ; While they... | |
 | John Younger - 1881 - 612 pagine
...projecting for the country gentiy the improvement of laying six or ten small farms into one. Then, indeed, " Tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factor's snash." My father's "gear" was actually "poinded," more by way of giving colour to the ejectment than for the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pagine
...ditchers, an' sic cattle; They gang as saucy by poor folk As I wad by a I in kin' bro>k. I've noticed, on our Laird's court-day, An' mony a time my heart's...apprehend them, poind their gear; While they maun stan', wi' aspect humble, An' hear it a', an' fear an' tremble ! I see how folk live that bae riches... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1882 - 374 pagine
...ditchers, an* sic cattle, They gang as saucy by poor folk, As I wad by a stinking brock.9 I've noticed on our Laird's court-day, An' mony a time my heart's...wae Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole10 a factor's snash : ri He'll stamp an* threaten, curse and swear, He'll apprehend them, poind13... | |
 | 1883 - 778 pagine
...given his name, but he has preserved his portrait in colours which are indelible : " I've noticed, on our Laird's court-day, An' mony a time my heart's...a factor's snash ; He'll stamp an' threaten, curse and swear, He'll apprehend them, poind their gear, While they maun stan', wi aspect humble, And hear... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 310 pagine
...delvers, ditchers, an' sic cattle ; They gang as saucy by poor folk, As I wad by a stinking brock.** I've notic'd, on our laird's court-day, — An' mony...— Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun tholett a factor's snash ;\\ He'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear He'll apprehend them, poind... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 pagine
...by a stinkin' brock. I've noticed, on our laird's court-day, And mony a time my heart's been wa«, Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factor's suash : He'll stamp and threaten, curse and swear, He'll apprehend them, poind their gear ; While they... | |
 | 1886 - 548 pagine
...gang as saucy by poor fo'k As I wad by a stinking brock. I've noticed on our laird's court-day — An1 mony a time my heart's been wae — Poor tenant bodies...apprehend them, poind their gear, While they maun staun' wi' aspect humble, An' hear it a', an' fear an' tremble. I see how folk live that hae riches,... | |
 | 1907 - 884 pagine
...For delvers, ditchers, an' sie cattle; They gang äs saucy by poor folk, As l wad by a stinkan brock. I've notic'd, on our Laird's courtday, An' mony a...tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factofs snash ; He'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' Hwear, He'll apprehend them, poind their gear;... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pagine
...heart 's been wae, Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, 95 How they maun thole a factor's snash: He 'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear ; He'll apprehend them, poind their gear; While they maun staun' wi' aspect humble, An' hear it a', an' fear an' tremble! 100 I see how folk live that hae riches;... | |
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I've notic'd, on our Laird's court-day, An' mony a time my heart's been wae, Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factor's snash : He'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear. He'll apprehend them, poind their gear ; While they maun... 
