Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Scotch Words: The Bapteesement O' the Bairn, and Other Poems
They speak in riddles north beyond the Tweed. The plain, pure English they can deftly read; Yet when without the book they come'to speak, Their lingo seems half English and half Greek.
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