HAME-SPUN RHYMES. BY JAMES SMITH,
ACTHOK OF TWO EDITIONS OF " HAMESPUN KHTME3,"
IN 1842 AND 1874. A B E Pt D E !•: N :
FEINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1879.
JIT OAYS LIFE AXD ADVENTURES.
Eut there I had a better fee, I had for months nae luair than three The nice Large sum of three poun' ten,
A bigger fee than best o' men.
ISIy neist was at Hill o' Crimon, For tAva i)oan' five I got on swimmin'.
:N'eist year I gaed to Fiddesbegg, But there wi' wark I got a flegg— To hale four scythes I had to rake
My twa poun' five to make, But as they were weel pleased wi' me, Five shillin's added to my fee.
A hafrst in Udny, at Hillbrae, For some four weeks a' but a day ; Of fee I had one poun' auchteen, Was by
the week, hairst was nae deen.
Three weeks hairst was down at Cruden, At South Ardiffery intruJen ; Intruden was wdiat came to pass, I took
awa' a farmer's lass. I near forgot, nae wi' my will,
A hairst I was at Davishill, I had for twa poun' five a fee To rake to scythes the number three ;
And twa hairsts w%as at Auchloon, To year forty-five brings me doon — The hindmost hairst that I was
at, I think I am maist sure o' that.
Now when about my hairsts I've tell't, Back to the house in which we dwelt,
