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/ [It is hoped that all Scottish characteristics known to the / Southron are here: pawkiness and pride of race; love of the / dram; redness of hair; eldership of, and objection to instrumental / music in the Kirk; hatred of the Sassenach; inability to see a joke, / etc., etc. An undying portrait is thus put on record of the typical / Scot of the day.]
There aince was a very pawky duke, / Far kent for his joukery-pawkery, / Wha owned a hoose wi' a gran' outlook, / A gairden an' a rockery. / Hech mon! The pawky duke! / Hoot ay! An' a rockery! / For a bonnet laird wi' a sma' kailyaird / Is naethin' but a mockery!