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(2) JOHN HIGHLANDMAN'S Remarks on Glasgow. Her nainſel into Glaſgow went, an earen there to ſee', And ſhe never ſaw a bonnyer town ſtanding on her feet ; For a the houſes that be there, vs-thicket wi' blue ſtairs, And a ſtain ladder to gang up, no fa' to prack her pains. I gang upon a ſtainey road, a ſtreet they did him ca', And when we ſeek the chapman's houſe his name be on the wa'. I gang to buy a fish tamback, and ſtanding at the cross, And tere I ſaw a dead man was riding on a horſe ! And O but he be a poor man, and no hae mony claiſe, Te brg me won aff his feet an' me fee a' bis tass. The port ked up his muckle fi (illegible text) for tu gi a ſhap,