In the following audio file, Iain Mackintosh, President of the Friends of William Soutar, reads a short poem by William Soutar. Please click your mouse on the file to hear it.

Black Day

A skelp frae his teacher
For a' he cudna spell
A skelp frae his mither
For cowpinowre the kail.
A skelp frae his brither
For clourin his braw bat:
And a skelp frae his faither
For the Lord kens what.