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Ill satisfied keen nature’s clamorous call, Stretched on his straw he lays himself to sleep, While through the ragged roof and chinky wall, Chill o’er his slumbers piles the drifty heap!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Tapestries, dyed purple, or glowing with variegated pictures of saints and heroes, hung, and if the day was stormy, flapped upon the chinky walls.

From The Ontario Readers Third Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Ill-satisfy'd keen nature's clamorous call, Stretch'd on his straw, he lays himself to sleep; While through the ragged roof and chinky wall, Chill, o'er his slumbers, piles the drifty heap!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert