Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1876 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Bradford Local Studies for providing the copy from which this transcription was made. Also to Keighley Local Studies for supplying the title page (the Bradford copy lacks the title page).
RANDOM RHYMES AND RAMBLES.
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By Bill o’th Hoylus End.
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Sae I’ve begun to scrawl, but whether In rhyme or prose, or baith thegither, Or some hotch-potch that’s rightly neither, Let time mak proof; But shall I scribble down some blether Just clean aff-loof.
I am nae poet, in a sense, But just a rhymer, like, by chance, And hae to learning nae pretence. Yet, what the matter? Whene’er my muse does on me glance, I jingle at her.
Burns.
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KEIGHLEY: A. APPLEYARD, PRINTER, CHURCH GREEN. 1876.
Most Respectfully
Dedicated to
James Wright,
Local Musician and Composer,
North Beck Mills,
Keighley,
By the Author.
Dec. 25th, 1876.