 | Archibald Romanes - 1876 - 98 pages
...growing better; The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours sweet and unco precious; The Soutar tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus; The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam ilidim mind the storm a whistle." And here, sitting in Tam's chair, with the Soutar's at its side,... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 pages
...better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious. Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious : The souter3 tauld his queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready...chorus : The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy E'en drowned himself amang the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...better ; The landlady and Tarn grew gracious, AVi' favors secret, sweet, and precious ; The souter tauld his queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready...The storm without might rair and rustle, Tarn did na inind the storm a whistle. Care, Iliad to see a man sae happy, E'en drowned himself amang the nappy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...better ; The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious; The Souter tauld his queerest stories, The landlord's laugh was ready chorus; The storm without might rah- and rustle — Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. TASl O' SI1ANTER. 263 The minutes winged their... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...better : The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious : The Souter tauld his queerest stories : The landlord's laugh was ready...chorus : The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whittle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drowned himsel' amang the... | |
 | Horatio King - 1878 - 428 pages
...better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious: The Souter tauld his queerest stories: The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle." Hard by are "the banks and braes o' bonnie Doon," and we watched... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...The landlady and Tarn grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious : The souter 9 tauld his queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready...and rustle, Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle. • * blockhead. " idle talker. " grinding lot. * Kirkton is the distinctive name of a village in which... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...for weeks thegither! The night drave on wf sangs and clatter, And aye the ale was growing better. 2. The Souter told his queerest stories, The landlord's...ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle — Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. 3. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes winged... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pages
...better: The landlady and Tarn grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The Souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready...The storm without might rair and rustle, Tarn did ua mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to sec a man sac happy, E'en drown'd himself aniang the nappy... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...; The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious ; I The Souter tauld his queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready...chorus ; The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whustle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drowned himself amang the... | |
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The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without... 
