IN HIGHLAND SCOTTISH DIALECT.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 325, 17 January 1907, Page 6

IN HIGHLAND SCOTTISH DIALECT.

* Noo, Maister Duncan Macintosh, He was a Hiolan’ chiel, And Maistcr Duncan Macintosh Could gar the bagpipes squcol He wore a suit o’ tartan daes To dance the Hielan’ Fling,' An’ this is something like the sang That Duncan liked to sing—(Choz’us.) tt’s a Draw, liricht, nuindicht nicht, the nicht, hooch aye ! There’s dew amang the heather, an’ there’s two raunes in the sky ; Dugald, Donald, Lachie, Ronald, WiF lie, Shon, an’ Tam, Dicht the gabber aff yer kilte an come an’ hao a dram. Noo. Duncan’s whiskers they were like The heather on tlic braes, An’ Duncan leeved on tawtie scorns An’ porridge a’ his days. He liked the lassies, an’ he liked To dance a red or fling, An’ when the dram was in his he id He’d loop aboot an’ sing— It’s a braw, ctc. :