On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I ...

In his famous poem “To a Mouse,” Robert Burns wrote “The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley.” What?! “The best ...