THE BROWNIES IN SCOTLAND.

Another said: ‘‘’T is, sure enough;

I fancy I can smell the stuff,

And on the heath behind this hill

See traces of their fire still,

O’er which they boiled the horrid mess
That brought. about so much distress.

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The ‘eye of newt and toe of frog’

Soon gave poor Scotland such a jog,
Young heads grew old and black ones gray
Before she knew a peaceful day.”

The mention of those stirring times

Soon brought to mind the witches’ rhymes,
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