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They are bouncing about like a shuttle,    They are kneeling an’ rubbing the floor; While their wee little mates they are doffing,    Preparing the spindles for more.

From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

They are bouncing abaht like a shuttle,    They are kneeling an’ rubbing the floor; While their wee little mates they are doffing,    Preparing the spindles for more.

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis