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"A puir, wee, hump backit cratur, wi' the face o' a gentleman." "I ken him weel," said Miss Horn. "He is a gentleman gien ever God made ane. But he 's sair afflickit. Whaur does he lie at nicht can ye tell me?" I wad hae weised him till a seat, but the moment II luikit at him, awa' he ran. He 's unco cheenged though, sin' the first time I saw him." Since he lost Phemy, fear had been slaying him.
In the original song there were but two stanzas, and this is the second: "She's backit like the peacock, She's breistit like the swan, She's jimp around the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span Her waist ye weel micht span An' she has a rolling e'e, An' for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down an' dee." As I have said, the "rolling e'e" has been changed, and wrongly, into one of "dark blue."
'Wha's son 's the hump backit cratur', says she, ''at comes in i' the gig whiles wi' the groom lad, think ye? 'Wha's but the puir man's 'at 's deid? says I. 'Deil a bit o' 't! says she, 'an' I beg yer pardon for mentionin' o' him, says she.
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