Note 53 — COMICAL TRANSACTIONS OF LOTHIAN TOM.
Reading edition
A little wooden trough such as is used for the feeding of sheep or swine. In an edition of this chap-book printed in Stirling by C. Randall, in 1801, the reading is:—‘Into a little tub or trough.’ It is the same in several later issues, but in Morren’s edition it reads:—‘Into a little tub or cogboin.’