with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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Note III,
While she held up her greedy gab
Just like an aumos dish.
The box, or bag, in which a beggar receives the
handfiils of meat, given as an aumos, or charitable
donation. It is also a Scottish phrase applied to a
sturdy beggar ;
—
^ Work or vrant ye're nae amous.*
Note IV.
Ilk smack still, did crack stilly
Like ony cadger^s whip.
A cadger is a man who travels the country with a
horse or an ass, carrying two panniers loaded with
various merchandize for the country people.
Note V.
He ended; and the kebars sheuk
Aboon the chorus roar
While frighted rations backward leuk,
An seek the benmost bore.
Kebars are the rafters of the barn. Sometimes
in old Scotch poetry they are called bougers.
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