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“Grumphie smells the weather An’ Grumphie smells the wun’ He kens when clouds will gather An’ smoor the blinkin’ sun.”

I was impressing Miss Diggity-Dalgety,—I could see that clearly; but Francesca spoiled the effect by inquiring, maliciously, if we could sometimes have a howtowdy wi' drappit eggs, or her favorite dish, wee grumphie wi' neeps.

An’ young an’ auld cam rinnin’ out, An’ hear the sad narration; He swoor ’twas hilchin Jean M’Craw, Or crouchie Merran Humphie, ’Till, stop! she trotted thro’ them a’; An’ wha was it but Grumphie Asteer that night!

An' young an' auld come rinnin' out, An' hear the sad narration: He swoor 'twas hilchin Jean M'Craw, halting Or crouchie Merran Humphie, hunchbacked Marian Till stop! she trotted thro' them a'; An' wha was it but grumphie the sow Asteer that night!

GRUMPHIE, s. a vulgar name for a sow.