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RE: Dole on Microsoft



  To James Marshall and others:
  
  Sorry, I should have translated it...
  
  "Gang aft a-gley" means, often go astray.  
  
  
  
  >On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:47:08 -0500 (EST), claribba wrote:
  >
  >>"Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
  >> O, what a panic's in thy breastie! 
  >><snip>
  >>The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
  >>Gang aft a-gley,
  >>An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
  >>For promis'd joy."
  >>
  >>	Robert Burns , "To a Mouse" 
  >
  >"Gang aft a-gley"?  Translation of that line, anyone?
  >
  >- -- James F. Marshall, Esq., Pasadena, California
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