Wi’ a wife’s ae son on a mear’s ae foal
Down thou shalt fa’.’“
[18] Called also the English Mocking Bird, and the Scottish Nightingale.
[19] Beild—shelter.
[20] Stravaigin—idle, wandering, or strolling.
[21] Tadpoles and frogs.
[22] The Penny Magazine was published in 1832, when Edward would be about eighteen years old.
[23] Maingie—many—“a great lot.” From the German word Menge.
[24] It proved to be a Brown Fritillery.
[25] Dyke or dike, in the North, means a stone or earth wall, not a ditch, as it means in the South.