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The Holy Fair (第2/5页)
air, to spend an hour in daffin: gin ye'll go there, yon runkl'd pair, we will get famous laughin at them this day.” h i, “wi' a' my heart, i'll do't; i'll get my sunday's sark on, a you on the holy spot; faith, we'se hae fine remarkin!” then i gaed hame at crowdie-time, an' soon i made me ready; for roads were clad, frae side to side, wi' mony a weary body in droves that day. here farmers gash, in ridin graith, gaed hoddin by their cotters; there swankies young, in braw braid-claith, are springing owre the gutters. the lasses, skelpin barefit, thrang, in silks an' scarlets glitter; wi' sweet-milk cheese, in mony a whang, an' farls, bak'd wi' butter, fu' crump that day. when by the plate we set our nose, weel heaped up wi' ha'pence, a greedy glowr black-bohrows, an' we maun draw our tippence. then in we go to see the show: on ev'ry side they're gath'rin; some carrying dails, some chairs an' stools, an' some are busy bleth'rin right loud that day. here stands a shed to fend the show'rs, an' s our tra gentry; there racer jess, an' twa-three whores, are blinkin at the entry. here sits a raw o' tittlin jads, wi' heaving breast an' bare neck; an' there a batch o' wabster lads, blackguarding frae kilmarnock, for fun this day. here, some are thinkin on their sins, an' some upo' their claes; ane curses feet that fyl'd his shins, anither sighs an' prays: on this hand sits a chosen swatch, wi' screwed-up, grace-proud faces; on that a set o' chaps, at watch, thrang winkin on the lasses to
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