id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17448 Rorie, David The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots .txt text/plain 9355 1609 102 On hame-owre themes weel-kent by Galen's tribe, Ye ca' awa' frae dawn till dark, Gude kens hae gey sma' stock o' patience! That gars the sweat hail doon like rain. An' ane o' them-auld Girsie BroonShe ran an' brocht the doctor doon, The doctor oxter'd Tam till's bed, Till mornin's licht, owre Tam Macphail, Till aince again the doctor cam' Oor Jock's gude mither's second man Will ye come to a hoose whaur a gude man bides, Whaur nae washin' ought to beAn' says auld jock Smairt, wha was passin' wi' his cairt: 'Twas a cheery like sicht as the bonny fire-licht I've aye held oot oor doctor Come owre wi' the lamp, like a man, Noo juist fair pits the shakers on me! The auld man had a girnin' wife, "Ye're aye gaun to dee, gude-wifeFowre nichts I hinna sleepit, As an auld wife weel can be, ./cache/17448.txt ./txt/17448.txt