s his weans on calfs' lugs,
Sowps o' brose, and draps o' crowdie.

In Arbroath and district, mothers, indicating the various parts of the
child's anatomy as they proceed, sing:--

Brow o' knowledge,
Eye o' life,
Scent bottle,
Penknife.
Cheek cherry,
Neck o' grace,
Chin o' pluck--
That's your face.
Shoulder o' mutton,
Breast o' fat,
Vinegar-bottle,
Mustard-pot--
That's my laddie.

Touching severally the various buttons on the child's dress during its
repetition, this sort of fortune-telling rhyme is common:--

A laird, a lord,
A rich man, a thief,
A tailor, a drummer,
A stealer o' beef.

Or supposing for the nonce that the child is a piece of cooper-work,
requiring to be mended, the following, accompanied by the supposed
process, may be sung:--

Donald Cooper, Carle, quo' she,
Can ye gird my coggie?
Couthie Carline, that I can,
As weel as ony bodie.
There's ane about the mou' o't,
And ane about the body o't,
And ane about the leggen o't,
And that's a girded coggie!

The next is lilted as an accompaniment to a pretended game of thumps:--

Bontin's man
To the town ran;
He coffed and sold,
And a penny down told;
The kirk was ane, and the choir was twa,
And a great muckle thump doon aboon a',
Doon aboon a', doon aboon a'.

The following (as Dr. Chambers remarks) explains its own theatrical
character:--

I got a little manikin, I set him on my thoomiken;
I saddled him, I bridled him, I sent him to the tooniken:
I coffed a pair o' garters to tie his little hosiken;
I coffed a pocket-napkin to dight his little nosiken;
I sent him to the garden to fetch a pund o' sage
And found him in the kitchen-neuk kissing little Madge.

While dandling the child on her knee the mother or nurse may sing:--

I had a little pony,
Its name was Dapple Grey:
I lent it to a lady,
To ride a mile away.

She whipped it, she lashed it,
She ca'd it owre the brae;
I winna lend my pony mair,
Though a' the ladies pray.

In the same manner the above may be followed by--

Chick! my naigie,
Chick! my naigie,
How many miles to Aberdaigy?
Eight and eight, and other eight;
Try to win there by candlelight.

Or:--

Cam' ye by the kirk?
Cam' ye by the steeple?
Saw ye our gudeman,
Riding on a ladle?

Foul fa' the bodie,
Winna buy a saddle,
Wearing a' his breeks,
Ri