Category: Verse
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“Plums and Puddicks”
Jock and Tam decide to steal the parson’s plums by shaking the tree and one slithers down Jock’s neck.
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Hikers’ Hostels
Barrowsgate pokes fun at the new trend for Hikers’ Hostels, pointing out that they are just the same as the old lodging houses, rebranded.
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A Lick for Luck
Hilly’s old mare gets a boil on her leg. He tries an old fashioned cure by rubbing chicken fat on it but he startles the horse and Hilly accidentally kicks the horse’s boil. The boil bursts and the horse is OK again.
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“The Mullert”
Disty sets out across the heather after night at the pub in Torphins and finds his way by the light of the moon. He thinks he’ll see it better if he looks through the bottom of his whisky bottle. However, the moon won’t stay put, the ground rises up and he ends up going back…
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“The Saut Sea Win’”
Tammie’s wife takes to her bed, worn out. He calls the Doctor, who recommends a month of salty sea air on the coast somewhere. Tammie thinks of a cheaper solution and, when the Doctor returns, he finds Tammie wafting a salted herring at his wife.
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The Worsit Thrum
A youth goes to the cinema and pulls at a thread of the woven woollen vest of the girl in front of him. He can’t stop himself and, by the time the film ends, the vest has completely unravelled. The girl never discovers what happened to it and the youth vows never to pull a…
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The Clan M’Tarzan
Rab and Tam come across a dead monkey, discarded by a visiting funfair. Thinking it’s a human, they discuss what clan it is from and conclude that it must be a relative of the Devil. They go off to ask the Laird if any Englishmen have gone missing.