Punch: Punch (78.1880)

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PUNCH, OP THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[May 1, 1880.

THE BAGPIPER OF MIDLOTHIAN.

An Old Tale adapted to new Tunes. With Apologies to Mediaeval Mythology and Mr. Browning.

idlothiax’s in Scotland,

Where stands fair Edinbro’s city,

Twixt the Firth of Forth and the Firth of
Clyde,

On the eastern and the western side,

A pleasanter region yon never spied ;

But, when begins my ditty
(’Twas only a few brief months ago),

To see that district monopolised so
By Tories seemed a pity.

Tories!

They’d'glamoured the land with their gush
about glories
(Even gammoned some Scots, though they ’re
commonly cute),

And so tickled the crowd with thrasonical stories,

Their fuming and fluster,

Their bragging and bluster,

That the Liberals pined, and grew mumchance and mute.