IN HIGHLAND SCOTTISH DIALECT.

NZ Truth, Issue 78, 15 December 1906, Page 8

IN HIGHLAND SCOTTISH DIALECT.

Noo, Maister Duncan Macintosh, Hie was a Hielan' ohiel, And Maister Duncan Macintosh Could Rar the bagpipes squeel, He wore a suit o' tartan elaes To dance the Hielan' fling, An' this is something like the sang That Duncan liked to sing— (Chorus.) It's a braw, bricht, munelicht nicht, the nicht, hooch aye ! There's dew amang the heather, an' there's twa mimes m the sky ; Dueald,. Donald, Lachie, Ronald, Wul"lie. Shon, and Tarn, Dicht the glabben: afl yer kilts an' come an' hae a dram. Noo. Duncan's whiskers they were like The heather on the braes,An' Duncan leeved on tawtie scones > An' norridie a' liis rlavs. He liked the Ic-rldies, ?n' he liked : To dance a reel or fline. An' wlipn the dram was m his heid He'd loup aboot an' smelt's a braw, &c. 62 Manners-street, next door U> Opera House, besf. .shop m lon-n for Post