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Glasses and Lasses

While Robert Burns was at Moffat once with Clarke the composer, the poet called fur a bumper of brandy.

“ Oh, not a bumper,” said the musician, ‘‘ I prefer two small glasses.”

“Two glasses ?“ cried Burns; “why, you are like the lass in Kyle, who said she would rather be kissed twice bare-
headed than once with her bonnet on.“

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