extempore in the court of session

tune—“killiercrankie.”

lord advocate

he clenched his pamphlet in his fist,

he ed and he hinted,

till, in a demation-mist,

his argument he tint it:

he gaped for't, he graped for't,

he fand it was awa, man;

but what his mon sense came short,

he eked out wi'w, man.