Mike J Dorward --------Alyth ---------Scottish Quality butcher

5 Commercial Street, Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland Ph11 8AF
Tel: 01828 632303
Overnight deliveries can be arranged


Gold award pork sausages, haggis, black pudding, Alyth dry cured bacon steaks, cooked gammon, Boerewors, Merguez. Diamond award beef sausages.
Deliveries nationwide

Address to a Haggis
by Robert Burns
Born Alloway near Ayr, Scotland, 25th January, 1759.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain of the Puddin'-race!
Aboon the a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe or thairm;
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdlies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead

His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An' cut you up wi' ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reeking, rich!

Then horn for horn, they stretch an' strive:
Deil tak the hindmost , on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive
'Bethankit' hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad make her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As reckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro' bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs, an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, it ye wish her gratefu' pray'r,
Gie her a Haggis!

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