I ken fine they're no laughin' at the wee joke sae much as at what they're thinkin' o' me and a' they've heard o' my tightness and closeness.

Do they think any Scot wad care for the cost of a stamp?
Maybe it would anger an Englishman did a postcard come tae him wi'oot a stamp.

It wad but amuse a Scot; he'd no be carin' one way or anither for the bawbee the stamp wad cost.

And here's a funny thing tae me.

Do they no see I'm crackin' a joke against masel'?
And do they think I'd be doing that if I were close the way they're thinkin' I am?
Aye, but there's a serious side tae all this talk o' ma being sae close.