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Address to a Haggis Translation just for Fly

Good luck to you and your honest, plump face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!
Above them all you take your place,
Stomach, tripe, or intestines:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.

The groaning trencher there you fill,
Your buttocks like a distant hill,
Your pin would help to mend a mill
In time of need,
While through your pores the dews distill
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour wipe,
And cut you up with ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like any ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm steaming, rich!

Then spoon for spoon, the stretch and strive:
Devil take the hindmost, on they drive,
Till all their well swollen bellies by-and-by
Are bent like drums;
Then old head of the table, most like to burst,
'The grace!' hums.

Is there that over his French ragout,
Or olio that would sicken a sow,
Or fricassee would make her vomit
With perfect disgust,
Looks down with sneering, scornful view
On such a dinner?

Poor devil! see him over his trash,
As feeble as a withered rush,
His thin legs a good whip-lash,
His fist a nut;
Through bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit.

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his ample fist a blade,
He'll make it whistle;
And legs, and arms, and heads will cut off
Like the heads of thistles.

You powers, who make mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill of fare,
Old Scotland wants no watery stuff,
That splashes in small wooden dishes;
But if you wish her grateful prayer,
Give her [Scotland] a Haggis!

Thanks for that :-S ;-)

You're welcome :-D :-D :-D :-D

When is your next class :-D

Mid February but already done paperwork. Mini talk will be about how people travelled from 1750 - 1900, the main part of all our trees. I'm giving them info on state of roads, coaches and the new travel on canals and then railways. We all expect our relatives to remain in one area and they didn't, well mine didn't.

Very few stayed put :-|

Don't I know it :-(

I didn't expect people to move like they did especially miners and puddlers.

Going now

Night Pat <3 <3 Munchkin <3 <3 Everyone <3

Sounds very interesting your class :-D

And farmers :-0 Night <3

Thanks

Night Fly :-D :-D <3 <3

Mwahhh to everyone tonight sorry I missed you all today <3 <3