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A Lizards' Tail A.D. Small	Oprah for the first time and she thought I was canny Well until I made a joke and laughed at her fanny I traveled from London, to Paris, Hell...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song For Kilts Robert William Service	(And here a canny Scotsman speaks), For one good kilt will wear you through A half-a-dozen pairs of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abram Morrison John Greenleaf Whittier	Blundering like an Irishman, But with canny shrewdness lent By his far-off Scotch descent, Such was Abram...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballade Of The Golfer In Love Clinton Scollard	Save one smite with canny...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bindle Stiff Robert William Service	I owned a single shirt; Like canny Scot I bought it black So's not to show the dirt; A handkerchief held all my gear, My razor and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Birds Of A Feather Robert William Service	They bore a cruel cross, And I, the canny one, am left,-- Yet as I grieve their loss, I deem, because they loved me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Flotsam Pat OCotter	Here the Norsman bunks with the canny Scot And the lad from the Emerald Isle Works side by side with Russ and Dane, North-bred men...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Glossary of terms used in David Rorie's works David Rorie	canny-like,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Green Grow The Rashes Robert Burns	But gi'e me a canny hour at e'en, My arms about my dearie, O, An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men May a'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jeemsie Miller Violet Jacob	A wee thing pleasant - that was a', An' drivin' canny)...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of Doves Brady Bowen	My mount is canny; he knew the way to my mountain home of sorrow and thence I speed like arrow-shot though...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Romance Robert William Service	They were so courteous yet so canny; Then as I wilted in despair A Frenchman flipped me on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Simile of Love edmund stanley	Canny, as that one crossing the winter Persistent,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song of the Artesian Water Andrew Barton Paterson	Now, our engine's built in Glasgow by a very canny Scot, And he marked it twenty horse-power, but he don't know what is what: When Canadian Bill...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ballad Of Sir Henry Shay Alan S Jeeves	Sir 'enry then bethought his lot And sparked a canny...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Duke's Hat Hugh Mann	horse and plinth couldn’t keep him safe from canny folks...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy Allan Ramsay	26 A wee piece frae my father's tower, 27 A canny, saft and flow'ry den, 28 Which circling birks has form'd a bower: 29 When e'er the sun...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
War Girls Jessie Pope	Beats a heart that's soft and warm, Though of canny mother-wit they show no lack; But a solemn statement this is, They've no time for love...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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