A SCOTCH BILL OF FARE ININDIA.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2

A SCOTCH BILL OF FARE ININDIA.

A number of Scotchmen met at an outstation in India to celebrate the anniversary of Burns ; the following was the BILL O’ FARE I * I will be blithe and licht, My heart is bent upon sae guid a nicht.’ A. wee drappie Tallisker. KAILS AND BROTHS. Hot spiced Indien Kail, Calippee Broth. FISH. Slices o’ Indien Saumun, wi’ Butter Bree, Indien Haddies Smeekit, First Coorse. Stewed Hens, wi’ Puddock-stools, Minced Lollops on a bane, wi’ sma’ Peas frae France, A toee Donal o’ Gleulivati Second Coorse. Chickens bakit in an Ashet Gigot o’ Mutton, wi’ Red Curran’ Jeelie, Scotch Haggis. ’ Fair fa’ yir honest, sonsle face Great chieftain o’ this pnddin’ race ! Aboon them a’ ye tak’ yir place, Paiuch, tripe, or thairm ; Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace As lang’s ma airm, ’ Stuffed Bubbly Jock roastit, an’ Soo’s Leg bakit. Tatties biled an’ champit; Bashed Necps ; Biled Ingans. Glesca’ Magistrates, wi’ Tatties roastit Aniiher wee Donat\ Thlrd Coorse. Jeelie Dumplin’, Grosset Tairt. Trummlin' Tammy Oranges. Paisley Corn Floor Cauld Snaw Puddin’. Mitey Dunlap Cheese. Ingans, Lettuces, Loo Aiples, Syboes, an’ a lot o’ itheir green things. Jv.st anither dram, tae keep a' doon. ‘ Food fills the wamC, ah’ kfeepg tie livin’; Tho’ life’s a gift no’ worth receivin’, When heavy dragg’d wi’ pine an' grievin’; But, oil’d by thee, The wheels o’ life gae doon-hill grievin’ ; Wi’ rattlin’ glee. 5 Woodside. —R. B.