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Thread #166699   Message #4010665
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-Sep-19 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Somebody nicked my name
Subject: RE: BS: Somebody nicked my name
I knew what a tattie scone is, but I didn't know "tattie bogle" is a scarecrow. It's also a folk dance, not that I can understand the diagram of the dance here:

So, Tattie Bogle, is your membership secure, or do I need to change your password for you? Sorry I missed you and Jack Campin on this trip to Scotland. I spent my spare time in Belfast, and had no time for visiting once the Jim Malcolm Borders tour began.

-Joe-


The tattie-bogle wags his airms:
Caw! Caw! Caw!
He hasna onie banes or thairms:
Caw! Caw! Caw!

We corbies wha hae taken tent,
And wamphl’d round, and glower’d asklent,
Noo gang hame lauchin owre the bent:
Caw! Caw! Caw!


William Soutar

from Seeds in the Wind: poems in Scots for children, rev. and enlgd. edition (London: Andrew Dakers, 1943)