 | 1892 - 588 páginas
...Till falls into the Tweed— Tweed says to Till, What gars ye rin sae still? Till says to Tweed Tho' ye rin wi' speed And I rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa. Or— Div ye no ken, Where, etc., I drown ten. — BS. ii. 331, 332. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Balderton crows... | |
 | Michael Aislabie Denham - 1892 - 388 páginas
...popular archaeology was never written. The following are variorum readings of the above rhymes : — 5. Tweed said to Till, " What gars ye rin sae still ? " Till said to Tweed, " What gars ye rin sae gleed ? For as slow as I go, And as hard as ye rin, A can drown twao men When... | |
 | Robert Charles Hope - 1893 - 264 páginas
...DART. " River of Dart, river of Dart ! Every year thou claims'ta heart. " THE RIVERS TWEED AND TILL. " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?'...rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man, I drown twa.'" Or, " Div ye no ken Where ye drown ae man I drown ten." THE DELUUE. The following is a small selection... | |
 | James Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 388 páginas
...superstition. An example of this occurs in the following popular rhyme connected with the Scottish Border:— " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still' ? Till said to Tweed, 'Though ye rin wi' speed, An' I rin slaw, Yet whare ye droon ae man, I droon twa.'" Some Aberdeenshire lines have the same theme:—... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1893 - 354 páginas
...their steps. " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?' * " Scottish Rivers," p. 45. 224 Till said to Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Sae still as ye rin and fast as ye gae, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twae.'" The vale of the Till,... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 390 páginas
...unstressed syllable, the place of which is supplied by a Pause, equivalent to a rest in music. E. g. : / / / Till said to Tweed: / / / Though ye rin wi' speed, / / / And I rin slaw, / / / Whar ye droon ae man / / / I droon twa. To make the underlying metrical scheme plainer, we might... | |
 | 1896 - 460 páginas
...which is here but a mountain streamlet. The joke is in the play upon the words Crook and Hearthstane. TWEED said to Till, | What gars ye rin sae still ?...Tweed, | Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, | Yet whaur ye drown ae man I drown twa. The Till flows through the northern part of Northumberland, and... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1900 - 282 páginas
...outburst of summer song. So we sang: — " Tweed says to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?' Till says to Tweed ' Though ye rin wi' speed And I rin slaw, Yet where ye droon ae man I droon tw».'" Xichol Elliott, Coldstreain. NHJHT BK/JKE TIO: HATTLH OK !• LODDKH.... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1898 - 328 páginas
...among the people in the neighbourhood, in reference to the comparative swiftness of the two rivers. " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?'...rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man, I drown twa.'" In the rivers Reed, WansbecJc, and Blyth, all rivers of Northumberland, there are fine trout, but they... | |
 | 1898 - 634 páginas
...very spirit of folk observation and thought, between the sister streams, the Tweed and the Till : — Tweed said to Till, "What gars ye rin sae still ?...said to Tweed, " Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slow, Do ye no ken Where ye droon ae man I droon ten ? " One can understand then the superstition derived... | |
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What gars ye rin sae still ? ' Till said to Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Yet, where ye drown ae man, I drown twa. 
