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gar sses&039; hearts gang start

whiles fast at night

then, first an&039; foreost, thro&039; the kail,

their stocks【1】 aun a&039; be ught ance;

【1】the first cereony of halloween is pullg each a “stock,” or pnt of kail they t go out, hand hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they et with: its beg big or little, straight or crooked, is prophetic of the size and shape of the grand object of all their spells—the hband or wife if any “yird,” or earth, stick to the root, that is “tocher,” or fortune; and the taste of the “ctock,” that is, the heart of the ste, is dicative of the natural teper and disposition stly, the stes, or, to give the their ordary appeltion, the “runts,” are pced where above the head of the door; and the christian nas of the people who chance brgs to the hoe are, aordg to the priority of pcg the “runts,” the nas estion—r b]

they steek their een, and grape an&039; wale

for uckle anes, an&039; straught anes

poor hav&039;rel will fell aff the drift,

an&039; wandered thro&039; the bow-kail,

an&039; pou&039;t for want o&039; better shift

a runt was like a w-tail

sae bow&039;t that night

then, straught or crooked, yird or nane,

they roar an&039; cry a&039; throu&039;ther;

the vera wee-thgs, toddl, r,

wi&039; stocks out owre their shouther:

an&039; gif the ctock&039;s sweet or ur,

wi&039; joctelegs they taste the;

syne ziely, aboon the door,

wi&039; cannie care, they&039;ve pc&039;d the

to lie that night

the ssies staw frae &039;ang the a&039;,

to pou their stalks o&039; rn;

but rab slips out, an&039; jks about,

beht the uckle thorn:

he grippit nelly hard and fast:

loud skirl&039;d a&039; the sses;

but her tap-pickle aist was lost,

whan kiutl the fae-hoe

wi&039; hi that night

the auld guid-wife&039;s weel-hoordit nits

are round an&039; r