_50 YEARS AGO._
_Song._ _Tune: "A Hundred Pipers."_
Stranger--What's a' the steer in the village the nicht,
An' what has gaen wrang wi' the folk?
Villager--There's naething gane wrang, an' a' thing is richt;
It's Meg gettin' mairit tae Jock.
Ye see, when a waddin' taks place in the glen
It is a momentous occasion,
For a guid week afore't the hale o' the crack
Is wha's bid tae the jollification.