gar sses&039; hearts gang start
whiles fast at night
then, first an&039; foreost, thro&039; the kail,
their stocks【1】 aun a&039; be ught ance;
【1】the first cereony of halloween is pullg each a “stock,” or pnt of kail they t go out, hand hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they et with: its beg big or little, straight or crooked, is prophetic of the size and shape of the grand object of all their spells—the hband or wife if any “yird,” or earth, stick to the root, that is “tocher,” or fortune; and the taste of the “ctock,” that is, the heart of the ste, is dicative of the natural teper and disposition stly, the stes, or, to give the their ordary appeltion, the “runts,” are pced where above the head of the door; and the christian nas of the people who chance brgs to the hoe are, aordg to the priority of pcg the “runts,” the nas estion—r b]
they steek their een, and grape an&039; wale
for uckle anes, an&039; straught anes
poor hav&039;rel will fell aff the drift,
an&039; wandered thro&039; the bow-kail,
an&039; pou&039;t for want o&039; better shift
a runt was like a w-tail
sae bow&039;t that night
then, straught or crooked, yird or nane,
they roar an&039; cry a&039; throu&039;ther;
the vera wee-thgs, toddl, r,
wi&039; stocks out owre their shouther:
an&039; gif the ctock&039;s sweet or ur,
wi&039; joctelegs they taste the;
syne ziely, aboon the door,
wi&039; cannie care, they&039;ve pc&039;d the
to lie that night
the ssies staw frae &039;ang the a&039;,
to pou their stalks o&039; rn;
but rab slips out, an&039; jks about,
beht the uckle thorn:
he grippit nelly hard and fast:
loud skirl&039;d a&039; the sses;
but her tap-pickle aist was lost,
whan kiutl the fae-hoe
wi&039; hi that night
the auld guid-wife&039;s weel-hoordit nits
are round an&039; r
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