Modern Maud Muller.

"A night when witches skim the air,         When spooks and goblins climb the stair;      When bats rush out with muffled wings,         And no"

"(By A. Turkey Gobbler.)      I'm just a turkey gobbler,         But I've got a word to say      And I'd like to say it quickly         Before I"

"Take up the household burden,         No iron rule of kings,      But make your family understand         That you are running things,      D"

"He led her out across the sand,         And by her side did sit:      He asked to hold her little hand,         She sweetly answered, "Nit.""

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"