By Oppression's Woes And Pains! By Your

If There 's A Hole In A' Your Coats, I Rede Ye Tent It; A Chiel 's Amang Ye Takin' Notes, And, Faith, He 'll Prent It.

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.

Good Lord, What Is Man! For As Simple He Looks, Do But Try To Develop His Books And His Crooks, With His Depths And His Shallows, His Good And His Evil, All In All, He's A Problem Must Puzzle The Devil.

Such Is The Fate Of Simple Bard, On Life's Rough Ocean Luckless Starr'd

Now Simmer Blinks On Flowery Braes, And O'er The Crystal Streamlet Plays.