‘I pray, come tell to me thy name,
Oh! tell me where does thy dwelling be?’
‘My name it is good Hein Mailer,
An’ I earn my livin’ oot o’ the sea.
5.
‘I am a man upon the land;
I am a selchie in the sea;
An’ whin I’m far frae every strand,
My dwellin’ is in Shool Skerrie.’
6.