‘An’ thoo will get a gunner good,
An’ a gey good gunner it will be,
An’ he’ll gae oot on a May mornin’
An’ shoot the son an’ the grey selchie.’
13.
Oh! she has got a gunner good,
An’ a gey good gunner it was he,
An’ he gaed oot on a May mornin’,
An’ he shot the son and the grey selchie.
When the gunner returned from his expedition and showed the Norway woman the gold chain, which he had found round the neck of the young seal, the poor woman, realising that her son had perished, gives expression to her sorrow in the last stanza:—