Just Now I've Taen The Fit O'

The Rank Is But The Guinea's Stamp, The Man's The Gowd For A' That.

Gars Auld Claes Look Amaist As Weel's The New.

The Trout In Yonder Wimpling Burn - That Glides, A Silver Dart, - And, Safe Beneath The Shady Thorn, - Defies The Anglers Art.

If There's Another World, He Lives In Bliss; If There Is None, He Made The Best Of This.

Burns' Hog-weighing Method: (1) Get A Perfectly Symmetrical Plank And Balance It Across A Sawhorse. (2) Put The Hog On One End Of The Plank. (3) Pile Rocks On The Other End Until The Plank Is Again Perfectly Balanced. (4) Carefully Guess The Weight Of The Rocks.